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Characters begin as your children and become your teachers. — Chloe Thurlow

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline ... But also every single day a kid needs a break. — Anne Lamott

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again. — Iain Lawrence

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. — Margaret Atwood

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour. — Roald Dahl

Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books. — Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

I always love writing about children. — Joanna Trollope

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best. — Aaron Shepard

The embryo of my second novel, Bobby's Diner, came to life because of my husband's ex-wives. Let's just say, they inspired the writing. — Susan Wingate

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it. — Fulton J. Sheen

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job! — Christy Hall

I don't know how to write a children's book. — Maurice Sendak

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words. — Mo Willems

Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child. — Katherine Paterson

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!' — Jane Smiley

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. — Jami Attenberg

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe. — J.K. Rowling

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

April, like a child,
Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers,
Wipes them away and forgets. — Rabindranath Tagore

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that. — Chris Van Allsburg

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children. — Robert K. Massie

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make it fun. — Alan W. Harris

For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems. — Kate DiCamillo

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write. — Mem Fox

Passion is a deep love for sacred activity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do. — Louisa May Alcott

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. — Norman Macleod

two children of her own, and about to head into the unknown world of '40', writing is her new passion. — L. Calell

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. — E.B. White

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off. — Judith Viorst

Every child should be taught how to read, write and think. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am writing a book entitled "Conquest." Please be ready. It is a book children should red. — Charles Keith Hardman

If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed. — Don Roff

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. — Beverly Cleary

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children. — Toby Jones

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan. — Brook Tesla

I don't believe in condescending to children. I don't change any writing technique. — Stephen Schwartz

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery. — Leslie Banks

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy ... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy. — Iris Johansen

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster. — Marlee Matlin

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. — David Walliams

Messages are the death of an honest literary transaction with children — Maurice Sendak

When we've decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with. — Celine Kiernan

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

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent. — Amanda Shires

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

I keep writing children's books, I keep making children's books, because I still have them inside of me. — Oliver Jeffers

The easiest and full of fun way to teach your children alphabet!!. Introducing "The Grocery Cart Spree Writing ABCs" story book by Doris Hankamer. — Doris Birdwell Hankamer

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review. — James Russell Lowell

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth. — Billy Wilder

If they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year. — Phyllis Diller

I do not believe in writing down to children but rather up to their intelligence. — Elle Alexander

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers. — Piers Anthony

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing. — Denise Mina

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. — J.K. Rowling

My books are inspired by children - sometimes my own.
My writing is powered by chocolate - not always my own! — Cas Lester

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it — Maurice Sendak

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

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ. — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. — Mignon McLaughlin

All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing. — Paul Weller

It's the witching hour once more-
When the Muse comes out to play.
He calls me through that magic door-
Where galaxies of worlds await! — Belle Whittington

To write for children at all is an act of faith. — Madeleine L'Engle

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted. — Maurice Sendak

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

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do! — David Almond

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing. — Jenna Bush

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one. — Enid Blyton

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process. — Dean Bakopoulos

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing. — Vicki Baum

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children. — Hugh Lofting

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both. — Judy Blume

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

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. — Robin Hobb

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

Sometimes you have no idea what you are you doing, but you just do it anyways. And that can be a good thing — Anita Babic

I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young. — Eve Bunting

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that. — Stephen King

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough. — Edmund Wallace Hildick

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

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

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder. — John Boyne

On the Writing Process:
When in doubt, take it out., — Barbara DaCosta

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

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did? — Diane Samuels

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. — Madeleine L'Engle

If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to. — Anita Brookner

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back — Kya Aliana

There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card. — Doug Stanhope

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets ... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. — Jack Prelutsky

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 — L. Frank Baum

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc ... to find success writing children's novels. — Brian Jacques

No children were harmed or neglected during the writing of this book. — Eleanor D. Alspaugh

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