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Childrens Book Quotes (page 3)

C. S. Lewis quote: "Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books..."
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. C. S. Lewis
W. H. Auden quote: "There are good books which are only for adults. There are no..."
There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children. W. H. Auden
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems Anna Garlin Spencer
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. C. S. Lewis
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children. Steve Wozniak
I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them. Gene Wolfe
Mitch Hedberg quote: "Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!"
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read! Mitch Hedberg
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years. Meg Tilly
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career. Al Yankovic
Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed. Mark Haddon
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. Horace Mann
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books. Dick Bruna
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. Madeleine L'Engle
Roald Dahl quote: "I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished..."
I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books. Roald Dahl
If you're from New Jersey,” Nathan had said, “and you write thirty books, and you win the Nobel Prize, and you live to be white-haired and ninety-five, it's highly unlikely but not impossible that after your death they'll decide to name a rest stop for you on the Jersey Turnpike. And so, long after you're gone, you may indeed be remembered, but mostly by small children, in the backs of cars, when they lean forward and tell their parents, 'Stop, please, stop at Zuckerman—I have to make a pee.'... Philip Roth

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