Doreen Cronin Quotes

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.

My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. I never really wanted to do anything else.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.

I always love writing about children.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.

I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.

It's a wonderful thing to write for children.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.