Able Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think.

— Sarah Pinborough

I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as a children's…

— Ruskin Bond

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my…

— Nina Bawden

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and…

— Audrey Hepburn

“Those who write for children, or at least those who write best for children, are not child-like or immature, but they do remember with…

— J.K. Rowling

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

— Judy Blume

The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their…

— Nina Bawden

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became…

— Meg Tilly

I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that. There's nothing…

— Joseph Boyden

I always love writing about children.

— Joanna Trollope

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

— Stephen Hawking

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I…

— Eckhart Tolle