Allan poe Quote by Paul Auster

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty and solitude…

— Christian Bobin

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but…

— Mark Twain

The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

— Andrea Brown

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know…

— Arthur Bradford

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years…

— Dove Cameron

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

— Edna O'Brien

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing…

— Robert Cormier

Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was…

— Mordecai Richler

There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft,…

— David Grann