#children

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#annoying #believe #born #children #hard

I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#children #close #close relationship #dog #experience

I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#children #code #different #find #five

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #off #reading #room #scene

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#children #done #heard #like #oftentimes

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#between #book #children #difference #even

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#book #books #children #distinction #either

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#books #children #could #easier #i

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#books #children #five #i #latter