Careers Quote by Daniel Handler

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many…

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

I believe that if a child has a feel for writing and wants to write, there is an audience. Children should just dive in…

— Jean Craighead George

I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough, tough business.…

— Min Jin Lee

A very important part of writing for children is appearing at book festivals, and in libraries and schools. An important part of becoming a…

— Michael Rosen

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

— Helen Dunmore

I wasn't thinking about becoming a children's writer. I just have an idea and if it sounds like a kids' book I'll write a…

— David Baddiel

A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous…

— Joan Aiken

As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than just learn…

— Lilian Katz

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who…

— Susan Orlean

Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that storytelling is…

— Emma Walton Hamilton