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I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've…

— Lynne Reid Banks

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing…

— Rick Riordan

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that…

— Brian Selznick

Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's book -…

— John Boyne

Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have…

— Alan Bradley

I believe that if a child has a feel for writing and wants to write, there is an audience. Children should just dive in…

— Jean Craighead George

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

— Maurice Sendak

At its best, writing is a dialogue. It's one of the things I love about children's: the fact that this dialogue is really there…

— Rebecca Serle

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you…

— Patrick Modiano

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

— Anonymous

The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

— Andrea Brown