The Book of Toys

"No toy is lovelier than a toy made of words. Children, like grown-ups, are more susceptible to words than to deeds, liking deeds told about better than deeds done. And if the story smells of a lie, and the lie is well contrived, they like the story all the more; from which a writer draws the lesson that imagination is truer than truth, and that life must be stirred up if it is to be written to the taste of the grown-up reader and the small listener." (Tudor Arghezi)