Children's Books Quotes - Page 6

• The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years. Roald Dahl

  Roald Dahl

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Children

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• I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Book, Childhood

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• Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Book, Laughing

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• I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Children, Book, Writing

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• A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

  Brian Selznick

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• I just wanted to be sure of you.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Wanted, Children's Books

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.95, Egmont UK

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• My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.

  Dav Pilkey

  Notebook, Children, Silly

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

  Chuck Jones

  Children, Book, Tests

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.164, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Book, Rich Life

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division.

  Maria Rodale

  Children, Book, Important

  Source: www.mcall.com

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• Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

  Vivek Shraya

  Children, Book, Age

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the experience of someone under the age of say ten or eleven to encompass. But that field is smaller than you might think. They can easily cope with death and things like that; they know about it and it's a subject that often preoccupies them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

  Charlie Brooker

  Children, Book, Bedtime

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.

  Mary GrandPre

  Children, Book, Artist

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Believe, Book

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?”, p.987, Macmillan

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• I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

  Edith Wharton

  Mother, Children, Book

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.42, Edith Wharton

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• I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy praise and corny rhetorical questions, you know, "Will she have a better time at summer camp than she thinks?" "How will she escape from the troll's dungeon?" All these terrible, terrible summaries of books, and I just couldn't.

  Daniel Handler

  Summer, Children, Book

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating featured any black kids-except for token blacks in the background. My book would have him there simply because he should have been there all along. Years before I had cut from a magazine a strip of photos of a little black boy. I often put them on my studio walls before I'd begun to illustrate children's books. I just loved looking at him. This was the child who would be the hero of my book.

  Ezra Jack Keats

  Children, Wall, Book

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• I don't know how to write a children's book.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

  Martin Amis

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Martin Amis: Only brain injury could make me write for children" by Benedicte Page, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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• It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Reading, Silly

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Children, Book, Reading

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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• There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the ending, but we finally find out who shot Bambi's mother.

  Conan O'Brien

  Mother, Children, Book

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

  Stanley Williams

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Self Esteem, Book

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