Adults Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and adult literature…

— Lloyd Alexander

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

— Jasper Fforde

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

— Douglas Gresham

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom…

— Anton Chekhov

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

— Anthony Horowitz

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young…

— Gabrielle Zevin

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she…

— Jenna Bush

“Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read the fewest…

— Lloyd Alexander

I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some restrictions, so…

— Daniel Handler

The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take the risk, to go where…

— Karen Hesse

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should…

— Amber Benson

There is no such thing as children’s literature.

— N. V. M. Gonzalez

“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were…

— Mizuki Nomura

Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an…

— C. S. Lewis

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

— Lois Lowry