Alan Davies Quotes

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

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.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.

As a child, I was always playing some generic child.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

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

Once you open the toy box they will play with the toys

When I'm not working, I'm having fun with my son. We do lots of kids' stuff.

John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.

When you are young, you just want to play as many games as you can.

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.

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

I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.

I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

When I was young, I was everywhere.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.