Books For Kids Quotes - Page 3

• As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Heart, Kids

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series did was occasionally kill off major characters. Thus was born "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" and its mysterious author, Lemony Snicket. "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" is now a great new series on Netflix.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Character, Mean

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 21, 2017.

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• If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

  Robert Munsch

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is the best kind of reader to be, which would be why I was always so satisfied to hear that kids read the Baby-Sitters Club books and then went on and discovered other authors and other genres.

  Ann M. Martin

  Baby, Book, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Kids

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• Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

  Maurice Sendak

  Book, Kids, Marketing

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• My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth

  Norton Juster

  Book, Writing, Kids

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• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Appreciation, Art, Book

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