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