Adults Quote by Christina Ricci

“We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment can work…

— Ann Schlee

I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I…

— Colin Thompson

I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot of them…

— Rebecca Stead

“I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults — librarians, friends’ parents — suggest to me that I liked books “with magic” because I…

— Laura Miller

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

— Kate DiCamillo

All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings', fantasies.

— David Baddiel

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

— Coy Bowles

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your…

— David Mitchell

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

— Louise Bourgeois

“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and children’s fiction…

— Neil Gaiman

“Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid is discovering…

— Thomm Quackenbush

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

— Maurice Sendak