I know some children's writers write for specific…

I never thought I'd get to have children; to me [they're] just a miracle.

— Nancy Grace

[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly…

— Fran Lebowitz

Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's…

— Jamaica Kincaid

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a…

— Caitlin Flanagan

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

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

— Maurissa Tancharoen

Quite out of proportion to the size of the country, British children's writers swept the world in the 20th century. We should celebrate them.

— Gyles Brandreth

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

— Mark Haddon

Little children are all writers.

— Alice Mattison

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”

— Puffin

The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term…

— Jeb Hensarling

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently…

— Mara Wilson

“Do you want children?” His eyes slid to me as he grabbed a menu. He answered cautiously, “Yeah.” “How many?” He turned to me…

— Kristen Ashley

“What a world this is, he thought. Children put us to shame with their pluck, and are shot in the back for it.”

— Frances Hardinge

Plants are as responsive to thought as children.

— Luther Burbank