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The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their…

— Louis Sachar

“A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never…

— Patty Smith

“I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because…

— Neil Gaiman

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

— Norman Macleod

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in…

— Anthony Burgess

There is a certain limitlessness to children's novels. You can be as fun and imaginative and creative as you want and your audience is…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive…

— Lloyd Alexander

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

— Flannery O'Connor

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've…

— Fisher Ames

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

— Anatole Broyard

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

— Jill Barnett

Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but…

— Neil Postman