Books Quote by Brian Jacques

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling…

— Brian Jacques

I became a children's author by accident.

— Jerry Spinelli

I've learned to accept that I'm a children's writer, even if it's not what I set out to become. It's what I should have…

— Jeff Kinney

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

— St. Lucia

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've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

— Richard Hell

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

— Eric Metaxas

I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my…

— Alan Hollinghurst

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying…

— Leslie Banks

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

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

— Erin Morgenstern