I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of… — Allen Covert Copy Share Image
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry.… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
I'm also very hopeful to continue my literary journey into the realm of children's books. To be able to read my kids… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class.… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things. She had tried being… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids.… — Bill Peet Copy Share Image
It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
My goal for children's books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing… — Paul O. Zelinsky Copy Share Image
“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“-and finally, to all of you who've come here tonight to celebrate children's books: every time you find the right, the necessary… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
“Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town.… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said. ‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
“He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
With my mother, Julie Andrews Edwards, I've authored such children's books as the 'Dumpy the Dump Truck' series, 'Dragon: Hound of Honor,'… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I started these Rush Revere and these children's books, I mean, there was a mission. It was to teach the truth of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
