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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned. — Malorie Blackman

You can't change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future. — Shamarion Whitaker

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. — Dr. Seuss

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling. — Maureen Corrigan

Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them. — Michael Rosen

The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves. — Andrea Brown

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.' — Alan Garner

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book. — K. Lamb

We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment can work magic in a child's life. — Ann Schlee

Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides
there must be a bonding agent
someone who attaches child to book. — Jim Trelease

Everyday Graces: A Child's Book of Good Manners, written by Karen Santorum.[73] — James C. Dobson

Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books. — Richard Peck

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

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. — Nora Ephron

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

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. — Katherine Paterson

For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience. — Michelle Paver

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying. — Benito Mussolini

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. — Alberto Manguel

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

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book. — K. Lamb

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. — Ed Bradley

Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books. — K. Lamb

Getting an idea is not enough.
But when you get two ideas, and they collide and have a bastard love child, that's when true stories are born. — Johan M. Dahlgren

'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter. — Josie Bissett

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive — Joseph Weizenbaum

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. — Malala Yousafzai

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. — Lee Child

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. — Frank Serafini

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends. — Claire Tomalin

Usually we're on the same page. Other times I'm in a whole other book"

~ Arika Wolly — Arika Wolly

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book? — Lee Child

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. — Arnold Bennett

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child. — Jacqueline Wilson

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

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book. — Lydia M. Child

A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic. — Quentin Bell

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.' I — Malala Yousafzai

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else. — Zadie Smith

If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well. — Charlotte Eriksson

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position. — Chris Van Allsburg

When you take a book away from a child, you are taking a child away from a stepping stone. — C.L. Collyer

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. — Truman Capote

If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. - Richard Due — Richard Due

A child can have too many toys, but never
enough books. — Jarrett J. Krosoczka

A good friend of mine once said, I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. — Marion Dane Bauer

grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child's math book. — Helen Simonson

If a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. — Madeleine L'Engle

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, — Mark Twain

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

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. — Maya Angelou

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know. — John Updike

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

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past. — Rachel Field

While I understand the mother believes what she is saying, I cannot believe the statement to be true for her young child. Hence the book. — May Saubier

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children. — Beverly Cleary

Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don't have the fucking part in writing a book. — M.F. Moonzajer

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. — Lois Lowry

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents! — Dick Bruna

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath — P.A. Speers

For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book. — Osman Rashid

The more we try to please others, the more we become unhappy. — Raj Singh

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

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

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader. — Lee Child

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. — George Konrad

I know what I liked as a child, and I don't do any book that I, as a child, wouldn't have liked. — H. A. Rey

The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands. Nancie Atwell9 — Kenny Pieper

What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence? — Kathy L. Patrick

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child. — Jonathan Tropper

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

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. — Norman Mailer

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal

Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of the Gifted Child. — Robert B. Parker

We need only two persons in our life - just you and me; and I think we can make a good story together. — Raj Singh

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child — Nachman Of Breslov

If you can't say sumpin' nice, then don't say nuttin' at all. Quote from Thumper, advice from his mother in the child's book, "Bambi. — Micki Peluso

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

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. — Mark Twain

For, to a child, the oddest of things, and the most richly coloured picture-book, is that his mother was once a child also. — J.M. Barrie

If you are never open to change things will remain the same, thereby driving you insane. — Clarine Williams

I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction. — Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever. — Kellyn Roth

I was with book, as a woman is with child. — C.S. Lewis

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. — Malala Yousafzai

All that counts is that a child says at the end of the book, 'Again! — Sebastian Walker

A book can change the world ... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. — Jackie French

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. — Hilaire Belloc

This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be. — Faye Snyder

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy. — Richard Allington

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact. — Joan Aiken

Motherhood doesn't have a nationality — Melinda Cross

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind. — Judith S. Beck

A book, child. A book just for you, in a lost language. — Celia Mcmahon

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is. — Kate Atkinson