Book Quote by Madeleine L'Engle Download Open image ““If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”” — Madeleine L'Engle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Children Writing
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
“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.” — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.” — Nandi Berry Copy Share Image
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing… — Rick Riordan 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… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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
