Children Book Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can… — Richard Adams
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children. — Arnold Lobel
I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The… — Leo Lionni
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job. — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so. — Roald Dahl
Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I… — Francesca Lia Block
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read… — Richard K. Morgan
I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children… — Enid Blyton
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. — Mark Haddon
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. — Mark Haddon
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children… — Michael Morpurgo
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It… — Diane Setterfield
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are… — Madeleine L'Engle
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and… — Neil Gaiman
When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless… — Roald Dahl
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion,… — Dr. Seuss

Who Wrote These Children Book Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Children Book Quotes as follows: