Friends Quote by Ian Rankin

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

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

— Anthony Shadid

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

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that…

— Andy Muschietti

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

— Dan Chaon

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

— Madeleine L'Engle

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren…

— Margaret Mahy

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or…

— Christopher Koch

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

— Piers Anthony

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in…

— Lloyd Alexander

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

— Robert Munsch