Age Quote by Alan Garner

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as…

— Jeff Kinney

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young…

— Gabrielle Zevin

All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has…

— Philip Pullman

“It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called ‘children’s books’. I think the convention…

— C.S. Lewis

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

— William Steig

There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids…

— Terry Pratchett

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult…

— Michael Rosen

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright

Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the…

— Neil Gaiman

Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.

— Jesse Andrews

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them. The idea…

— Soman Chainani