Book Quote by Mark Haddon

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

— Steven Wright

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting…

— Enid Blyton

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

— Deborah Moggach

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five…

— Patti Smith

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun…

— Ellen Potter

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

— Anne Enright

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five…

— Patti Smith

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

— Lynn Abbey

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should…

— Edmund White

I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a…

— Daniel Handler

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

— Diablo Cody