Henning Mankell Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Growing Up, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Sep 18, 2012

• Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Believe, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 22, 2012

• For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Widows And Orphans, Political

• Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Mean, Problem

• I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Father, Book

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