Book Quote by Michael Morpurgo

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

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

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

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

“This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult, a book…

— Laura Miller

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same…

— Mark Haddon

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 think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult…

— Michael Rosen

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

I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some restrictions, so…

— Daniel Handler

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell…

— Maurice Sendak

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they…

— Orson Scott Card