Catherine Jinks Quotes

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?'

My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

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

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

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

I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'

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.

I never wrote my books especially for children.

Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.

'War and Peas' by Michael Foreman, one of the great British children's illustrators. His watercolours are so lovely you could almost eat them, just as members of the target audience have been trying to do for decades.

One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and had similar life experiences.

I can't contain how enthusiastic I am about working on books for kids.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

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.

What 'Twilight' gave me was years to consider how I wanted to work otherwise.

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 just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.