Language Quote by Rudyard Kipling

“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were…

— Mizuki Nomura

“And we all know, too, that those words really don’t damage children much. They didn’t damage us when we were young. It was evil…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad…

— C.S. Lewis

“For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.”

— Robin Oliveira

“It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you know,…

— Mark Twain

“The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you…

— Lois Lowry

“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth on which…

— Milton Meltzer

“Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.”

— William Faulkner

“On a rainy day, she wouldn’t give a lesson. She’d take a block of paper and a stick of charcoal and sketch the poorest,…

— Betty Smith

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read…

— Barbara Cooney