Always Quote by Penelope Lively

My main motive for going into children's literature was to recreate the helpless giggling that infected me in my childhood. In some ways, I…

— Michael Rosen

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

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

— Gretchen Rubin

I'm also very hopeful to continue my literary journey into the realm of children's books. To be able to read my kids a children's…

— Trista Sutter

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

— Tracy K. Smith

We wanted to write a book that we would have read as kids, and would love to read to our children.

— Tom Fletcher

I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Anonymous

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

— Jessica Mitford

We always wanted to do a children's book of some form or another.

— Nancy Wilson

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun…

— Ellen Potter