Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long…

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

— Kumail Nanjiani

I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to look up…

— John Boyne

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well…

— Martin Amis

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

— David Walliams

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's…

— Al Yankovic

“This book is by no means an exhaustive study of human anatomy or the vast science of yoga.”

— Leslie Kaminoff

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if…

— Augustus William Hare

If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me…

— Echo Bodine

“The only course to pursue to make life bearable on such a day, at least for women (I speak not of men, considering their…

— Rhoda Broughton

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you…

— Anne Lamott

“I remember a lecture from one of my lit classes about a theory called "Reader Response", which basically says: More often than not, it's…

— Kelly Corrigan

I was lucky: I feel like I've written four books that mean something to me, and one book that means everything to me, and…

— Markus Zusak

...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

— Mark Haddon

“It's only a book. But what it means to write a book.”

— Chaim Potok

“Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.”

— jahangir khosravi shakib