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“It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers.”

— Alain de Botton

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading…

— Kate DiCamillo

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly…

— Daniel Handler

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

— Beverly Cleary

“Given a good pitch and the right amount of capital, any educated person ought to be able to make a small secure living out…

— George Orwell

We had absolutely no experience in writing kids books and its a very competitive market. But we buy and read a lot of children's…

— Tom Fletcher

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

— Arnold Lobel

I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If…

— Jeff Kinney

In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they're not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old.

— Chris Borland

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

— Charles Stross

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops,…

— George Orwell