Childrens book Quotes

“Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.”

— Nikolas Lee

“For in the forest someone is always watching and someone is always listening!”

— Nancy B. Brewer

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

— Shel Silverstein

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of…

— Gregory Maguire

Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read…

— Maureen Johnson

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

— Edna Ferber

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

— Jane Yolen

“My ears are too beeg for my head. My head ees too beeg for my body. I am not a Siamese cat…

— Judy Schachner

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help…

— Charles Buxton

On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did…

— Kate DiCamillo

“The Paperbats book. Successful publication release with 30 books downloaded in first day and a half. "This delightful childrens' book has just…

— Jerry Evans

We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying…

— Lawrence Lessig

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know -- is their true…

— Suzy Kassem

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