Best Quote by Lauren Ridloff

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

— Coy Bowles

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

— Mark Kurlansky

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

— Mark Haddon

Although I started writing children's books before I had kids, my approach changed after I became a dad.

— Tom Fletcher

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's…

— Dick Bruna

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was…

— Chrissy Costanza

I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our…

— Bob Weir

I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

— Carolyn Murphy

[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 started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

— Anonymous

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

— J. K. Rowling

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's…

— Al Yankovic