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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these…

— Matt Nix

I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as a children's…

— Ruskin Bond

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children…

— Quentin Blake

I always love writing about children.

— Joanna Trollope

“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

“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

I wasn't thinking about becoming a children's writer. I just have an idea and if it sounds like a kids' book I'll write a…

— David Baddiel

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

— Kent Haruf

“When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad…

— CJ Heck

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

— Stephen Hawking