Ability Quote by Tim Wynne-Jones

“This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult, a book…

— Laura Miller

“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive…

— Lloyd Alexander

“Children's literature is considerably more functional than a good portion of adult literature. If I were cynical, I might say: Children's books are written…

— Lloyd Alexander

“It sometimes strikes me that there is only one taboo left in young adult literature. By and large, no one complains any more when…

— M.T. Anderson

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that…

— Andy Muschietti

“I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole literary mainstream;…

— Lloyd Alexander

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Young adult fiction is getting more popular among adults because the writer is trying hard all the time to maintain the reader's interest.

— Jesse Andrews

“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. The reason…

— Philip Pullman

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The…

— Anonymous

It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the…

— Carl Hiaasen