Monologues Quote by Soman Chainani

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

— J. K. Rowling

“It is through hearing about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings… that children learn or mislearn what a child and what a…

— Michael Ward

“The authors we classified as villains, detractors, and bad role models for our children are part of the educational curriculum. Freethinkers and the gutsy…

— Julia Ann Charpentier

“Sometimes the most dangerous thing for kids is the silence that allows them to construct their own stories—stories that almost always cast them as…

— Brené Brown

“Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen.”

— Gillian Flynn

“I observe that many abusive netizens and insidious individuals kidnap the truth. Their hatred and calumny spread, feeding disinformations like daily toxic bread, feeding…

— Angelica Hopes

“Having compared the novel-reader with an infant and a primitive, one can go further and call him a psychopath; and this I shall shortly…

— Frank Kermode

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“He peered into the night-dark windows of the afflicted girls, whispering names and stirring fits into their dreams until their own screams awakened them.…

— Susan Catalano

“When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad…

— CJ Heck

“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

“Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it!”

— Joanne McClean