Book Quote by Arthur Ransome

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

— Maurice Sendak

I wasn't thinking about becoming a children's writer. I just have an idea and if it sounds like a kids' book I'll write a…

— David Baddiel

I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I…

— Natalie Babbitt

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

— Andrea Brown

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

Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read.

— Anonymous

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same…

— Mark Haddon

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

— Maurice Sendak

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting…

— Enid Blyton

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

— Maurice Sendak

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn…

— Neil Gaiman