Michael Patrick Hearn Quotes

I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me 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.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

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?'

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.

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

I rarely read children's books.

I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.

I need the lightness of children's lit.

To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.

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.

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

When I was very small, I loved 'Meg And Mog' by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski. I had all the books and remember going to see the theatre production.

With my mother, Julie Andrews Edwards, I've authored such children's books as the 'Dumpy the Dump Truck' series, 'Dragon: Hound of Honor,' 'The Great American Mousical,' 'Simeon's Gift' and 'Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child.'

When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped!

I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid.