Award Quote by Claire Messud

I became a children's author by accident.

— Jerry Spinelli

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing…

— Roald Dahl

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and…

— Robert B. Parker

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written,"…

— Andrew Davies

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

— Anne McCaffrey

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

— Steven Wright

'MotherFatherSon' was just an extraordinary read and I wanted to be a part of it.

— Sarah Lancashire

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

— Marcel Carne

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who…

— Katherine Paterson

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I…

— Eckhart Tolle

I didn't want to write a book as Stephen King's son, because all I did was get born, and that's not much of an…

— Owen King