Age Quote by Jodi Picoult

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing…

— Rick Riordan

Writing for children is the toughest thing.

— Sudha Murty

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

— Maurice Sendak

“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

— Elizabeth Berg

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

— David Walliams

The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

— Andrea Brown

“If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.”

— Don Roff

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

— Ruskin Bond

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same…

— Mark Haddon

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

— Robin Hobb

I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our…

— Bob Weir