Book Quote by Anne Enright

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was…

— Chrissy Costanza

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft…

— Patti Smith

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

— Steven Wright

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

— Oliver Jeffers

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's…

— Al Yankovic

I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.

— Jason Reynolds

It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was…

— Chris Van Allsburg

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

— Mark Haddon

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

— Coy Bowles

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things…

— Jennifer Weiner

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

— Lynn Abbey