Children Quote by Katherine Paterson

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

— Maurice Sendak

I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

— Maurice Sendak

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

— Madeleine L'Engle

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.

— Eric Metaxas

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

“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

You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the…

— Carolyn Haywood

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

— Judy Blume

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's…

— Anonymous

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

— Richard Russo

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer…

— Arthur Ransome