Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

I'm such a kid at heart.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

I love kids. I think I'm a child at heart.

It's so much fun trying to channel my inner four-year-old.

I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you.

One of the greatest ways to stay young is to have little kids.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.