Children S Books Quotes

Children S Books Quote of the day

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

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.

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.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

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.

...She Let Him Just Sit There and Be Happy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

There is no place like home.

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

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

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.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

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.

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.

Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

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.

We be of one blood, ye and I

I just wanted to be sure of you.

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

I'm also very hopeful to continue my literary journey into the realm of children's books. To be able to read my kids a children's book that was inspired by them would be everything!

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

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 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.

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

When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.

For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

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 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.

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

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."

Children's books are by nature partisan.

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

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.

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

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

Magic is always impossible. It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That's why it is magic.

Somehow her hula hoop had cut into the driver’s side door like the vehicle was made of cheese.

There's nothing greater than having a heart filled with love...& eyes filled with light:-)