Adults Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as…

— Jeff Kinney

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

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

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so.…

— David Walliams

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good.…

— Helen Dunmore

“Children's literature is considerably more functional than a good portion of adult literature. If I were cynical, I might say: Children's books are written…

— Lloyd Alexander

Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.

— Jesse Andrews

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

— R. L. Stine

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

— Beverly Cleary

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

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

— Neil Gaiman