Tim Schafer Quotes

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.

When we were kids, we would just go walking: just walk in a direction and hope that you were gonna find a crashed alien spaceship or buried pirate's treasure or something like that. You never did. You'd find, like, a coyote skeleton, something like that. That was the most exciting thing you'd ever find.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world.

In an ideal world, 'Doctor Who' makes the whole nation eight years old, with that excitement and engagement and wide-eyedness.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.'

I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!