Agency Quote by Robert Paul Weston

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from…

— Gore Vidal

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

— Emily Giffin

A lot of times it's the child that sees something and not the grownup. I love that because, when readers get older, they start…

— Jan Brett

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real…

— Shirley Hazzard

Of all people, children are the ones that really understand when there's a truth there for them - an emotional truth. The characters really…

— Jan Brett

Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they…

— Chinua Achebe

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

— Vivek Shraya

What's interesting is that younger characters just have a more vibrant, exciting point of view on the world. They are more emotional, they are…

— Mark Waid

While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters…

— Elizabeth George

I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a…

— Allan Stratton