Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.

I always love writing about children.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that at school that day all the kids sat on the floor and watched 'The Neverending Story.' Having never heard of the movie, I concluded that this was what school must be: sitting cross legged on the floor listening to a never-ending story. Page after page.

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old.

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.