Annoying Quote by Elizabeth Hoyt

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Of all people, children are the ones that really understand when there's a truth there for them - an emotional truth. The characters really…

— Jan Brett

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

— Kent Haruf

We write stories that we like and hope the kids like them, too. But we definitely make sure that they skew toward a kid…

— Butch Hartman

I am a better person when I am writing, and I am probably a better mother because I can focus all that laser attention…

— MacKenzie Scott

Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly names. Like…

— Judith Viorst

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children…

— Quentin Blake

Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a…

— Kirby Larson

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became…

— Meg Tilly

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

— Norman Macleod

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

— Donna Tartt