Children Book Quotes

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

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

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

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almost everything I've wanted to do.

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about your books than you do!

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then I suddenly realized I did.

My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.

I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

Children's books are by nature partisan.

Everyone if so warm, and the children know my from the children's books. Their oldest siblings or young parents know me from "Here Comes the Groom" or "Waterboy."

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

I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.

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.

Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.

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.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

My books are like my children. I love them all.

My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.