Adults Quote by Neil Gaiman

“I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children’s books hidden…

— Neil Gaiman

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

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

— Beverly Cleary

It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very…

— Mamoru Hosoda

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

— Charlie Brooker

Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures;…

— Anthony Doerr

Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as…

— Anthony Browne

To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the…

— Jello Biafra

As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to…

— Anthony Browne

I had someone ask me, they thought I was doing a kids' book for some reason. I think my book reads like a kids'…

— Nate Bargatze

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander…

— A. S. Byatt

“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and children’s fiction…

— Neil Gaiman