Age Quote by Adora Svitak

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

— Iain Lawrence

All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a…

— Julie Andrews

I have always been immersed in a world filled with words, earlier as a reader and now, finally, as both a reader and a…

— Twinkle Khanna

Work harder so that your children will have to go to the dictionary to look for the word 'hunger'

— Ritu Ghatourey

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full…

— Kofi Annan

“I believe we can change the world one letter at a time. Literacy isn't a noun, it's a verb meant to be a call…

— Kelly Tully

Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light children up,…

— Rebecca Serle

The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a…

— Charles Ghigna

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

— Stephen Hawking

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I…

— Oscar Hijuelos

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

— Walter Dean Myers

Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the…

— Orhan Pamuk