"I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11."

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"I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11."

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"Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Childhood, Regret, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

"In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge."

Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian Athlete

Childhood, First, Quick, School

"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Childhood, Innocence, Fire, Nobility, Nature

"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Childhood, Truth, Fear, Wisdom, Power

"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."

John Green, American Author

Childhood, Wind, Kids, Life, Learning

"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Childhood, Story, Innocence, Simplicity

"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Childhood, Absurdity, Innocence, Experience

"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Childhood, Man, Problem, Loss, Innocence

"Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Childhood, Innocence, Perception, Ugliness

"Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!"

"In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge."

"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."

"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."

"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."

"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."

"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."

"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."

"Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about."

"Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent."

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"Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed."

"I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses."

"You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country."

"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming."

"I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes."

"Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior."

"My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework."

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