“I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!” FeelsYearsBelieveStillsSometimesHardKidsMomAdultsHard To Believe Author:Ana Ortiz
“A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field.” ChildrenHardSidesAttentionTeachingAwarenessFieldsBuddhismAdultsClay Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.” PeopleWritingTryingChildrenBookHardThreeFourAdultsAcceptedException Author:R. L. Stine
“Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.” ChildrenHardReasonCultureJudgingExerciseAdultsCoreReservesSooner Or LaterStubbornUrgency Author:Lionel Trilling