Book Quote by Astrid Lindgren

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

— Sarah Jio

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

— Marcel Proust

I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and…

— Terry Pratchett

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

— Mary Ellen Chase

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

— Robert Munsch

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very…

— Anthony Horowitz

“Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books,…

— Betsy Hearne

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult…

— Michael Rosen

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book…

— Rebecca Stead

My goal for children's books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book…

— Coy Bowles

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest…

— P. L. Travers

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

— Anne Tyler