Children Quote by Alice Walker

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”

— Frank Serafini

“All grief would slip away and all questions would be remembered as the uncomprehending wails of a newborn who did not grasp the meaning…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad…

— CJ Heck

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“We learned about life from the books they told us not to read.”

— Antoinette Ingoldsby

“But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk,…

— Gunter Grass

“For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly.”

— André Gide

“Who cannot recall, as I can, the reading they did in the holidays, which one would conceal successively in all those hours of the…

— Marcel Proust

“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books…

— Junot Díaz

“But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.

— Doris Lessing