Children Book Quotes

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away.

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games.

I tell you one thing that's great about children. They don't need a show to have fun. What do they need? A book of matches, some oily rags, a little brother... that's all they need.

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.

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

Ever since I was a little child, I refused to see movies of books that I loved. Because you already know what Heidi looks like and she doesn't look like Shirley Temple.

Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

A child can have too many toys, but never enough books.

There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.

People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

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