Book Quote by Norman Macleod

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

— Maurice Sendak

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

— Philip Pullman

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

— Helen Dunmore

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write…

— Madeleine L'Engle

You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It…

— Michael Ian Black

I don't know how to write a children's book.

— Maurice Sendak

“I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole literary mainstream;…

— Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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

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

There is a certain limitlessness to children's novels. You can be as fun and imaginative and creative as you want and your audience is…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher