“Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go off on a tangent or if you give them extraneous information that doesn't serve the story. You really have to tell a tight story. You have to give them humor and suspense and believable characters. All those things that adults want too, but you have to be really on your game when you're writing for kids.” IfsWantGivingWritingCharacterStoriesKidsGamesAudienceInformationAdultsHarderSuspenseBelievableDiscerning Author:Rick Riordan
“Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.” ThinkingTryingChildrenMightRememberAdultsHarderPushingLearners Author:Seymour Papert
“Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the harder it is to rewire them.” PeopleWayMindHas BeensRunningAdultsHarderOne WayPathwaysCan't Change Author:Howard Gardner
“I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.” PeopleThinkingRealSchoolAcceptingAdultsHarderReal LifeSchool Life Author:Natalie Portman
“It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. Or affection. It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.” MenYearsRealStoriesDreamCareThreeEasyFictionBreakPiecesAdultsHarderAffectionRuinsChainsThings To DoConspiracyGesturesEntertainingSweetnessFragmentsHindsightCarelessnessGrown ManPorcelainRaccoons Author:Arundhati Roy
“You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.” BelieveActionResponsibilityAdultsHarderTaking ResponsibilityWords And Actions Author:Natsuki Takaya