Book Quote by Maurice Sendak

I rarely read children's books.

— Beverly Cleary

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

— Beverly Cleary

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

— Robert Munsch

I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed…

— Alice Hoffman

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything…

— Pat Barker

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

— Beverly Cleary

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then…

— Brian Selznick

Funny enough, I don't really recall being read kids' books as a child. I think my truly favorite thing to do was flipping through…

— Julio Torres

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Judy Blume

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

— Anthony Browne

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

— Eric Metaxas