Australian Quote by Catherine Jinks

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

— Jessica Mitford

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the…

— Pat Conroy

I'm also very hopeful to continue my literary journey into the realm of children's books. To be able to read my kids a children's…

— Trista Sutter

I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some…

— David Small

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories…

— Michelle Magorian

I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time:…

— Richard Dawkins

I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly exciting.

— Justine Larbalestier

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

— Lou Doillon

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and…

— David Tennant

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens…

— Russell Banks