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Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

I just like seeing kids inspired.

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while - that's how they learn to be creative.