Writing for Young Audiences Quotes

I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as a children's book.

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

For some reason, I have always had a really good ability to write children in a way that's realistic but not annoying. The key to that is underwriting them: peel back the dialogue and keep it simple.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.

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

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it's there for the right reason.

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

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

My first break was becoming a staff writer on the rebooted '90210.' And then I got stuck writing in the teen genre for a while.

I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children. I love talking with them.

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.