Adults Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my…

— Nina Bawden

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book…

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest…

— Jodi Picoult

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when…

— Diana Wynne Jones

It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding…

— Rachel Cusk

Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell…

— Andrea Brown

“I’ve seen middle grade books criticized by adult readers for leaving things for the reader to figure out, for not having perfect happily-ever-after endings.…

— Anne Ursu

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

— Aaron Shepard