Adults Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've…

— Lynne Reid Banks

I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.…

— Lloyd Alexander

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

— Iain Lawrence

Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell…

— Andrea Brown

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

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you…

— Patrick Modiano

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that…

— Brian Selznick

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as…

— Morris Gleitzman

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

— Joan Lingard

Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly…

— Serge Schmemann

Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young people. My…

— Renee Watson

I don't think naturally I tend toward anything that's really distinctly branded as adult. I feel like I sort of write for myself as…

— Noelle Stevenson