• Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

    Thornton Wilder: Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
    Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.