Adults Quote by Mark Haddon

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

— Maurice Sendak

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer…

— Arthur Ransome

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

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

“I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole literary mainstream;…

— Lloyd Alexander

Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read.

— Anonymous

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for…

— Michael Morpurgo

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The…

— Anonymous

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

Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's book -…

— John Boyne

“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive…

— Lloyd Alexander

“Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be…

— Lillian H. Smith