Book Quote by Don Roff Download Open image ““If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.”” — Don Roff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Children Children 's books Children 's literature Fail Failure-quotes Kids-books Literature Writers-on-writing Writing Writing-quotes
“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.” — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” — Frank Serafini Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is only enjoyed by children is a bad… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
“if you want to convince children of the power of books, don’t tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.” — Roger Sutton Copy Share Image
“For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
