Children Quote by Louise Doughty

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while,…

— Anne Tyler

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on…

— Julianna Baggott

Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly, my body…

— Robin Beth Schaer

Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I…

— Brian K. Vaughan

When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not…

— Katherine Paterson

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

I've learned to accept that I'm a children's writer, even if it's not what I set out to become. It's what I should have…

— Jeff Kinney

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading…

— Elizabeth Bowen

The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

— Andrea Brown

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting…

— Enid Blyton

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge…

— Jonathan Kozol