Book Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our…

— Cory Doctorow

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

— Walter Dean Myers

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

“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the…

— Voltaire

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

“People write books for children and other people write about the books written for children but I don't think it's for the children at…

— Russell Hoban

The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can…

— Susan Cooper

I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question.…

— Chris Abani

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring…

— C. J. Box

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The…

— Anonymous

“Those who write for children, or at least those who write best for children, are not child-like or immature, but they do remember with…

— J.K. Rowling