Book Quote by Denise Mina

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those…

— Salman Rushdie

'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it.…

— Satya Bhabha

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up…

— Laura Miller

'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is…

— L.A. Weatherly

Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all…

— Michael Morpurgo

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot.…

— Stephen King

At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters…

— Ravi Subramanian

Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty…

— Melissa de la Cruz

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to…

— Orville Prescott

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

— Charlie Brooker

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

— Beverly Cleary