Children Quote by Joan Schenkar

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

— Piers Anthony

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments…

— Anna Quindlen

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

— Edna O'Brien

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

“To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.”

— Lee Bennett Hopkins

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.

— Joseph Hergesheimer

“Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his life.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that’s why there are so…

— Lauren Carr

“I see so many kids that love being writers more than they love writing.”

— Scroobius Pip

“Many writers were better before they became famous.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is doomed.”

— Czelslaw Milosz