If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you…

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

— Carlos Drummond de Andrade

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as…

— Neel Mukherjee

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to…

— Frank Luntz

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

— Kate Christensen

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

— Tomi Lahren

Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

I wanted to write children's books. I felt that the best way to understand how a child thinks in their mind is to be…

— Lauren Ridloff

“Style is not how you write. It is how you do not write like anyone else. * * * How do you know if…

— Charles Ghigna

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer…

— Arthur Ransome

My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's…

— Michael Ian Black

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

— Stanley Williams

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

— Maurice Sendak