Able Quote by Gregory Maguire

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold…

— Gregory Maguire

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

— Mark Haddon

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

— Charlie Brooker

We had absolutely no experience in writing kids books and its a very competitive market. But we buy and read a lot of children's…

— Tom Fletcher

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it…

— Lisa Alther

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for…

— Charlotte Mason

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good.…

— Helen Dunmore

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

— John Grisham

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If…

— Jeff Kinney

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading…

— Kate DiCamillo

“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a few totally…

— May Sarton