Books Quote by Sloane Crosley

It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home…

— Sloane Crosley

Children's books are full of violence.

— Terrence Malick

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

— J. K. Rowling

“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.”

— Richard Peck

“Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be…

— Lillian H. Smith

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

— Scott Turow

“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and children’s fiction…

— Neil Gaiman

“There’s something nice about out-and-out children’s books with no sex and a happy ending—Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.”

— Jo Walton

“Themes that are "too large for adult fiction can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book" - Philip Pullman (Hunt and Lenz,…

— Anonymous

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

— John Mortimer

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

— Michael Morpurgo

I love those books and movies where someone turns because they're blackmailed or they're passed over for promotion.

— Nathan Englander