I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“Children's books are written to be read, adult books are written to be talked about at cocktail parties” — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference. — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. — William Steig Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books. — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore. — Stanley Williams Copy Share Image
Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books. — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
“Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and… — Lillian H. Smith Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl.… — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together,… — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of older children's books when I was a kid, and you wouldn't believe how many sugar-coated tracts I… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“The apartment was entirely, was only, for her; a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A stack of children’s books stood ready by René’s bedside, and as Picard had begun the paternal duty of reading his boy… — David Mack Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
My parents read me some typical children's books: 'Green Eggs and Ham,' 'The Little Engine That Could,' 'Peter Rabbit.' But I quickly… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful… — Tony Millionaire Copy Share Image
“You sometimes heard about the marginally talented wives of powerful men publishing children's books or designing handbags or, most commonly, becoming photographers.… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Magic happens when the wand of language strikes a stone and makes it melt, touches a spindle and turns it into gold,… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
“In 1970, Alix Kates Shulman, a wife, mother, and writer who had joined the Women's Liberation Movement in New York, wrote a… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Today, the earth’s continents are home to billions of Sapiens. If you took all these people and put them on a large… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being. — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me. — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn… — Jerry West Copy Share Image
There's a great place for good Christian children's books. After the upcoming projects I'm working on, I'd like to turn my attention… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
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