Adult Quote by Nikki Grimes

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

— Coy Bowles

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was…

— Chrissy Costanza

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008…

— Akhil Sharma

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's…

— Al Yankovic

Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation that either…

— Melanie Martinez

Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working in a…

— Kate DiCamillo

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first…

— L. Frank Baum

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice…

— John Boyne

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since…

— Anonymous