Audience Quote by Russell Freedman

Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or from a…

— Russell Freedman

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

— Roald Dahl

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

— Enid Blyton

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

— Willa Cather

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

— Helena Bonham Carter

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

— Norman Macleod

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

— Maurice Sendak

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

“...one of the main purposes of our assesment is to find evidence of the children using these ideas to make decisions about their writing…

— Katie Wood Ray

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so…

— Derek Walcott

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

— Robert Munsch

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

— Charles J. Shields