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"I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
"I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write."
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You say:
Dealing with children tires us out.
You are right.
You say:
'Cause we need to kneel to their perceptions.
Kneel, bend down low, belittle ourselves.
You are wrong.
That's not what fatigues us. But - that we have to climb up to their feelings. Climb up, stretch ourselves out, stand on tiptoe, reach out.
That we don't hurt them.
Janusz Korczak (When I am little again, 1925)