I think that children who read are better writers, and…

My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell…

— Dawn Richard

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's…

— Anonymous

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander…

— A. S. Byatt

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren…

— Margaret Mahy

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many…

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books.

— Michael Rosen

We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true…

— Neil Gaiman

“How come you write the way you do?” an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who was visiting.…

— John Barth

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than…

— Neil Gaiman

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard…

— Cate Marvin

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick…

— Don DeLillo

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

— Ernest Hemingway

“From The Red Sox Reader: "The Yankees may have always had the better players, but the Red Sox always had the better writers.”

— Dan Riley

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world…

— Camille Paglia