Children Quote by Caitlin Flanagan

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”

— Puffin

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than…

— Fran Lebowitz

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander…

— A. S. Byatt

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

— Maurissa Tancharoen

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children…

— Quentin Blake

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than…

— Fran Lebowitz

There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.

— Colson Whitehead

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers…

— Amos Oz

I think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine almost anyone…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Quite out of proportion to the size of the country, British children's writers swept the world in the 20th century. We should celebrate them.

— Gyles Brandreth

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard…

— Cate Marvin

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

— Mark Haddon

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

— Susie Bright

Little children are all writers.

— Alice Mattison

You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on…

— Bennett Miller