Book Quote by Sharon Creech

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them. The idea…

— Soman Chainani

If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the…

— Judy Blume

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away…

— Anne Enright

“I’ve seen middle grade books criticized by adult readers for leaving things for the reader to figure out, for not having perfect happily-ever-after endings.…

— Anne Ursu

“What I worry about most is the loss to young people. If no one speaks out for them, if they don't speak out for…

— Judy Blume

I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore.…

— Mary Roach

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

— Alain de Botton

If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put…

— Deborah Ellis

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what…

— Philip Pullman

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of reading I…

— Elif Batuman

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

— George W. Bush