Quote by Frank Kermode

“The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

“His main example was to read like a child--very curiously and carefully ... But with the full intellectual sophistication of a brilliant adult.”

— Daniel Menaker

“When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad…

— CJ Heck

“As long as a reader hasn't willingly put down his book, he is a potentially dangerous individual.”

— Anonymous

“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks — already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions…

— Aldous Huxley

“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

— Alain de Botton

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste, Share the joy of reading with all you meet. Both young and Old. Especially the children.”

— Anonymous

“A well-read person is a dangerous creature.”

— Hazim Bangwar

“The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us.”

— Ernst Kretschmer

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green