Book Quote by Madeleine L'Engle Download Open image “if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.” — Madeleine L'Engle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Children Children 's literature Enough Good enough Grownups Ifs Literature Not good enough
If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how wrong somebody is—how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explainable fact—when I see only the mistakenness of others, then I am blinded to their being children of God, who are just… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
