Believe Quote by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they…

— Orson Scott Card

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is something all…

— Rebecca Serle

“This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult, a book…

— Laura Miller

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

— Kent Haruf

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

— Philip Pullman

Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an…

— C. S. Lewis

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 think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

— Eleanor Catton

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

— Norman Macleod

I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it…

— Marie Rutkoski

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

— Vivek Shraya