Children Book Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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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
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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
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I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
— Arnold Lobel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: