Children Quote by Jasper Fforde

Yeah, I love Ewan McGregor, I think he's phenomenal.

— Gareth Edwards

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything,…

— Simon Callow

It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why…

— Wilfrid Sheed

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

— Tilda Swinton

“Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be…

— Lillian H. Smith

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels…

— Edward Albee

“Themes that are "too large for adult fiction can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book" - Philip Pullman (Hunt and Lenz,…

— Anonymous

“The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then?…

— John Barth

“I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because…

— Neil Gaiman

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster