Children Writing Quotes
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Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.
— Chloe Thurlow
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
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
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
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
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
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
I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
— Beverly Cleary
I don't believe in condescending to children. I don't change any writing technique.
— Stephen Schwartz
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
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
— David Walliams
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
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
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— 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
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
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
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
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
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
Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.
— Dean Bakopoulos
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
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
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
On the Writing Process:
When in doubt, take it out., — Barbara DaCosta
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
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
No children were harmed or neglected during the writing of this book.
— Eleanor D. Alspaugh