Age Quote by Anthony Browne

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a…

— James Hillman

We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books.

— Michael Rosen

I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think.

— Sarah Pinborough

Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story.…

— Dr. Seuss

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

— George MacDonald

It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of…

— Steven Heighton

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's…

— Anonymous

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

— Diane Duane

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

— Donna Tartt

“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read…

— Barbara Cooney

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way…

— John Taylor Gatto