Asked Quote by Sara Sheridan

On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did for a…

— Kate DiCamillo

I don't know how to write a children's book.

— Maurice Sendak

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it…

— Candace Bushnell

I've been waiting a long time to be a children's book author. I've spent decades getting good enough to write for children. When a…

— Jewell Parker Rhodes

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice…

— John Boyne

My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's…

— Michael Ian Black

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

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she…

— Jenna Bush

You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It…

— Michael Ian Black

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well…

— Martin Amis

“i have read a couple of children's book. But this book is amazing”

— Anonymous

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

— David Walliams