Children's Publishing Quotes

You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

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

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.

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

I want to be like the Nike or Apple of children's books.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

I moved to London when I was 21 and I needed a job. I'd just done a year working in Waterstones in Manchester and I was looking for any old job. This advertisement came up for an editorial assistant on Dora the Explorer Magazine. Because I'd been working in the Children's Department in a bookshop for a year I just nailed the interview.

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

We always wanted to do a children's book of some form or another.