Books Quote by Paul Auster

The best books I read as a child were set in far-flung places, but also portrayed characters experiencing a life far removed from my…

— Dawn Foster

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want…

— Tea Obreht

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened…

— Harper Lee

I rarely read children's books.

— Beverly Cleary

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

— Michael Ondaatje

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

— Beverly Cleary

“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

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with…

— Dorothy Parker

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

— Robert Munsch

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

— Eric Metaxas

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

— Maurice Sendak

My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood,…

— Sue Perkins