Book Quote by E. M. Delafield

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

— Mark Haddon

The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

— Andrea Brown

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so.…

— David Walliams

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

— Mark Haddon

We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books.

— Michael Rosen

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they…

— Orson Scott Card

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer…

— Arthur Ransome

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

— Eleanor Catton

“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

“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive…

— Lloyd Alexander