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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

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

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. — Jack Prelutsky

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

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

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert. — Adam Mansbach

And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers. — Rick Riordan

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

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

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

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

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

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. — Ellen Potter

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

When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad or angry? — C.J. Heck

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu. — Karen Russell

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. — James Fenton

When you write for children, don't write for children.
Write from the child in you. — Charles Ghigna

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count. — Dr. Seuss

Writing for children is important to me because I want children to develop the same love of books I had as a child. — Darlene Foster

I like writing for children because they are not prejudiced against magic. — J.P. Hightman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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