Grown-Ups Quotes

I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.