Books Quote by Clyde Edgerton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

— Eleanor Catton

We had absolutely no experience in writing kids books and its a very competitive market. But we buy and read a lot of children's…

— Tom Fletcher

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

— Ken Follett

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

— V. S. Naipaul

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…

— Enid Blyton

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they…

— A. S. Byatt

Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.

— Michael Rosen

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

— Anne Enright

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid,

— Carl Hiaasen

I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If…

— Jeff Kinney

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

— Coy Bowles

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

— Ashwin Sanghi