Children Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are…

— Oliver Sacks

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in…

— Daniel Handler

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They…

— Lev Grossman

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

— Adam Grant

We write stories that we like and hope the kids like them, too. But we definitely make sure that they skew toward a kid…

— Butch Hartman

I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.

— Leroy Hood

I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults…

— Mike Berenstain

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of…

— Morris Gleitzman

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

There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of…

— Deborah Meier

Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

— Jane Yolen