Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes

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

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.

A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

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

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, they'll tell the kid who I am. They think they should give that to the kid. So generally that sends the kid over.

I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.

All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.

I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a devil of a time selling it. It ended up in the hands of an editor of a children's publishing house, for which it was entirely inappropriate. She said, "Well, we can't publish this, but I think you should write something for children," which I thought was a really terrible idea.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

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.

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new.

Children's publishing is the jewel in the crown of British publishing.

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.