To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
When your child is looking up at you, and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.
No child should be left behind - I've heard this from President Obama. And here, we say in Latin America, no country should be left behind.
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
You can’t change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future.
The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are.
To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.
