Book Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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 think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

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

— Andrea Brown

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

— Rick Riordan

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

— Anonymous

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's…

— Anonymous

Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun for children…

— Ken Spillman

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

— Eleanor Catton

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

— Helen Dunmore

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

— Iain Lawrence

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

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander…

— A. S. Byatt