Books Quote by Jill Paton Walsh

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

— Paul Auster

In India, not enough importance is given to writing for children. And what could be more important than the enrichment of young minds with…

— Ruskin Bond

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be…

— Margaret Atwood

The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing…

— Jenny Han

Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a…

— Sabaa Tahir

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should…

— Wallace Stegner

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright

I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.

— Elizabeth Wein

“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth on which…

— Milton Meltzer

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez