Kelley Armstrong Quotes

I always love writing about children.

I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Kids are funny.

Children are wonderful!

Children are funny.

I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

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.

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

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.

Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.

Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.