Book Quote by Roald Dahl

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I…

— Eckhart Tolle

I never wrote my books especially for children.

— P. L. Travers

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

— Maurice Sendak

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 think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general…

— Clyde Edgerton

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid,

— Carl Hiaasen

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

— Anne Enright

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

— Steven Wright

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft…

— Patti Smith

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

— Judy Blume

I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time.

— Seanan McGuire

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the…

— Astrid Lindgren