Mara Wilson Quotes

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.

I think it's more difficult writing what it's like to be a child. You can pretend you know what it's like, but you don't really know. The only parts I can remember is that the adults were like, "Aren't they cute?" But when you're little you're looking at the other kids like they're your colleagues. They're not like, "Oh, we're all cute little kids." They're more like your office acquaintances. It's very hard to grasp the memories of what it actually was like to be a kid.

A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal truths that are most simply seen through the mind of a young person.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

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

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

My childhood was extreme.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people's childhoods.