Adult Quote by John Boyne

I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to look up…

— John Boyne

Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's book -…

— John Boyne

I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would…

— John Boyne

I've been waiting a long time to be a children's book author. I've spent decades getting good enough to write for children. When a…

— Jewell Parker Rhodes

[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

I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.

— Sara Sheridan

You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It…

— Michael Ian Black

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well…

— Martin Amis

My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's…

— Michael Ian Black

I don't know how to write a children's book.

— Maurice Sendak

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial…

— Julia Glass

I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I…

— Natalie Babbitt