Academic Quote by Simon Schama

I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.

— Christopher Paul Curtis

Writers have superpowers.

— Cynthia Hand

If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is…

— El-P

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

— Roald Dahl

A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous…

— Joan Aiken

“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.”

— Nandi Berry

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you…

— Patrick Modiano

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

— Enid Blyton

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely…

— Sara Sheridan

It's really fun to write something for kids. You can make it a little bit more extreme and crazy than you would for adults.

— Stephen McCauley

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

— Maurice Sendak