Always Quote by Kate DiCamillo

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to…

— Jerry Spinelli

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had…

— Rick Riordan

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

— Maxim Gorky

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know…

— David Almond

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when…

— Diana Wynne Jones

You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.

— Maxim Gorky

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

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The…

— Anonymous

I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I…

— Louis Sachar

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my…

— Nina Bawden

If you write for children with respect and treat them with dignity - you'll capture the adults as well. Children deserve nothing but our…

— Sally Lloyd-Jones

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle