About Quote by Louis Sachar

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened…

— Nikki Grimes

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

— Coy Bowles

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

— Oliver Jeffers

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then…

— Brian Selznick

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The…

— Erin Morgenstern

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 haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

— R. L. Stine

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would…

— Dee Brown

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

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do…

— Patricia MacLachlan