Robin Hobb Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

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.

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind ... This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part.

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.

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

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.

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

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

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.

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

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.

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

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.

And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.

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 frustrated by celebrities who decide to write children's books because they think it's easy. That drives me crazy. It's frustrating because it's unfair to children. Because they'll get a lot of attention, they'll get a lot of marketing budget and so on just because they're a celebrity - the Madonnas, the Ricky Gervaises, the Russell Brands.

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

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.'