Book Quote by Mark Haddon

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

— Coy Bowles

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

— Patricia Cornwell

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

— Mark Kurlansky

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

— Robin Hobb

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

— Judy Blume

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's…

— Dick Bruna

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

— Steven Wright

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was…

— Chrissy Costanza

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write…

— Jena Malone

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing…

— Gunter Grass

I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing…

— Graeme Base