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.
Source: Interview in Writers at Work (First Series, ed. by Malcolm Cowley, 1958).
-- Thornton Wilder, (Apr 17 1897-1975), US playwright, novelist; He is well known for his plays Our Town, 1938 and The Skin of Our Teeth, 1942.