Books Quote by Daniel Handler

“Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be…

— Lillian H. Smith

“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth on which…

— Milton Meltzer

The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids.

— Jason Reynolds

“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.”

— Richard Peck

It was an amazing childhood, despite what you might think about black struggle and poor neighbourhoods and the ghetto. My mother was an educated,…

— Kehinde Wiley

“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the…

— Katherine Ann Porter

“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just…

— Pamela Paul

“Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world…

— Ray Bradbury

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

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

“i have read a couple of children's book. But this book is amazing”

— Anonymous

“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