Philip Kerr Quotes

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

Let's welcome the children into the world.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

Children are not ‘those children’; they are our children.

A child should be a child for as long as possible.

Writing for children is the toughest thing.

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

I think what's at risk is kids losing touch with being a kid. Being a kid is being defined differently than it was when you didn't have all this stuff you could put in front of your face.

Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults.

The good thing about kids is they want to be mobile; they want to be running around nonstop. They want to play. They want to be outside. So they're inherently more active than we are, because we get much lazier as we get older. Part of being a parent is keeping up with your kid.

Childhood is all about innocence. Being constantly surrounded by cameras and shutterbugs, makes children lose that innocence. It's terrifying and worrying, to say the least.

For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me.

My earliest childhood memories are just of me falling and getting injuries.

Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age, often painfully limited.

From fully funding nutrition programs to protecting children from liquid nicotine poisoning, I have focused many of my efforts in Congress on advocating for polices that invest in our most valuable resource - our children.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.