Dorothy Parker Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?'

In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

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

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

I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but it grew beyond the category.

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

I need the lightness of children's lit.

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.

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.

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

I never wrote my books especially for children.

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

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

I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.

Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.