Charles Dickens Quotes

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

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

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

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

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

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

Children are the keys of paradise.

When our memories outweigh our dreams we become old. And America is forever young.