I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved. — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I came to New York to see what I could see — that's from a children's book, isn't it? — and to… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is… — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I’m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
“To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books, It's better to be giving books to children than drug treatment… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I create books for six-year-olds. I don't know why that time of my life was so important to me, but no matter… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Run a test. Give a 5-year-old a printed book and an iPad and see what happens. That 5-year-old is going to go… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons… — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“For my grandchildren . . . and all children—this book is written with hopes of the time to come, when no child… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
My all-time favourite children's book is 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it -… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called "Lionel Richie and the… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Over and over again women and men ... come to me saying, I don't know enough to write a book for adults,… — Mabel Robinson Copy Share Image
