I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
- Steven Wright
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
- Laurie Anderson
I'm not putting my faith or life in anyone's hands. All that ever got me was screwed, and my ass is currently sore from it. (Wren)
Nice imagery there, tiger. Graphic. Ever think of writing children's books? (Fury)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.
- Nina Bawden
It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers.
- Alain De Botton
Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
- Berke Breathed
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
- Margaret Wise Brown
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.
- Dick Bruna
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
- Beverly Cleary
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
- Beverly Cleary
It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to her fifth-floor walk-up. How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (breach of contract).
- Sloane Crosley
I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
- Roald Dahl
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
- Kate Dicamillo
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
- Helen Dunmore
Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.
- Dr Seuss
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
- Mark Haddon
A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among other people who write and publish them, is that they did get to be in this unrecognized ghetto for a long time.
- Daniel Handler
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.
- J K Rowling
Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took her bath each night with a different cookery book.
- Eva Ibbotson
The worst book I've never read is the book I've never written, nor will I ever write. That book is "Food, God, Sex", which is not to be confused with "Eat, Pray, Love". My book was going to be about calories, the cosmos, and orgasms, but I just don't think there's a market for that type of thing among all the other children's books in the world.
- Jarod Kintz
The apartment was entirely, was only, for her; a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked. She had kept some books...which suggested to her that she was, or might be, a person of seriousness, a thinker in some seeping, ubiquitous way; and she had kept, too, a handful of children's books...that conjured for her an earlier, passionately earnest self.
- Claire Messud
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.
- Arthur Ransome
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
- Barry Sonnenfeld
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
- William Steig
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
- David Walliams
People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children's books. But they think children are happy. That's their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.]
- Mo Willems
Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children's books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers...at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.
- Patricia C Wrede
- Steven Wright
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
- Laurie Anderson
I'm not putting my faith or life in anyone's hands. All that ever got me was screwed, and my ass is currently sore from it. (Wren)
Nice imagery there, tiger. Graphic. Ever think of writing children's books? (Fury)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.
- Nina Bawden
It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers.
- Alain De Botton
Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
- Berke Breathed
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
- Margaret Wise Brown
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.
- Dick Bruna
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
- Beverly Cleary
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
- Beverly Cleary
It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to her fifth-floor walk-up. How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (breach of contract).
- Sloane Crosley
I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
- Roald Dahl
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
- Kate Dicamillo
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
- Helen Dunmore
Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.
- Dr Seuss
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
- Mark Haddon
A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among other people who write and publish them, is that they did get to be in this unrecognized ghetto for a long time.
- Daniel Handler
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.
- J K Rowling
Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took her bath each night with a different cookery book.
- Eva Ibbotson
The worst book I've never read is the book I've never written, nor will I ever write. That book is "Food, God, Sex", which is not to be confused with "Eat, Pray, Love". My book was going to be about calories, the cosmos, and orgasms, but I just don't think there's a market for that type of thing among all the other children's books in the world.
- Jarod Kintz
The apartment was entirely, was only, for her; a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked. She had kept some books...which suggested to her that she was, or might be, a person of seriousness, a thinker in some seeping, ubiquitous way; and she had kept, too, a handful of children's books...that conjured for her an earlier, passionately earnest self.
- Claire Messud
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.
- Arthur Ransome
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
- Barry Sonnenfeld
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
- William Steig
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
- David Walliams
People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children's books. But they think children are happy. That's their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.]
- Mo Willems
Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children's books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers...at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.
- Patricia C Wrede
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