Adults Quote by Mac Barnett

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them. The idea…

— Soman Chainani

It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the…

— Carl Hiaasen

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

— Eleanor Catton

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

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

I didn't write these books specifically for the young-adult audience. I wrote them for me. I don't know why they span the ages so…

— Stephenie Meyer

I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would…

— John Boyne

I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I…

— Louis Sachar

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

— Philip Pullman

My goal for children's books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book…

— Coy Bowles

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