I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I am frustrated by celebrities who decide to write children's books because they think it's easy. That drives me crazy. It's frustrating… — John Boyne 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 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
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'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
“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
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
“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
“Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat with only 236 different words, so his editor bet him he couldn’t write a… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really… — Jewel 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 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
“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
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“there was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism.… — Philip Pullman 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
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 do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Children's literature is considerably more functional than a good portion of adult literature. If I were cynical, I might say: Children's books… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“...we should never grow so old, or change so much, that we cannot find room in our hearts for the wisdom of… — Judith Viorst 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
With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and… — John Boyne 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
I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
