Childhood Quote by Simon Mawer

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

— Rick Riordan

“Those who write for children, or at least those who write best for children, are not child-like or immature, but they do remember with…

— J.K. Rowling

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep…

— V. S. Naipaul

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

— Ian Mcewan

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are…

— E. M. Delafield

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

— Paul Auster

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

— Judy Blume

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go…

— John le Carre

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading…

— Elizabeth Bowen