Children Book Quotes

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it's a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.

Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.

Parents can offer their help by suggesting and locating resources likely to be unfamiliar to children, such as people, books, andmaterials that can be useful.

... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.

As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.

My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.

To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division.

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.

I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.