All kinds Quote by Richard Scarry

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

— Andrea Brown

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

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

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

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Helen Dunmore

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

— Maurice Sendak

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

— Enid Blyton

A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous…

— Joan Aiken

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books…

— Don Novello

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton