“I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.” NeedsFeelsWritingBookAdults Author:J. K. Rowling
“It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.” WritingChildrenLiteratureCasesAdultsCriticismCriticsMaturePublishing Author:Alice Walker
“There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.” KnowsGivingWritingBelieveChildrenStillsBookReasonYoungHumanityStuffIllusionDevilAdultsAngelLogicGuiltCriticsClarityBelovedRebellionBelieve In GodReviewsWitchThirstAlienationObsoletePunctuationQuenchGoblinHoot Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer
“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.” WayWritingChildrenAdults Author:Maxim Gorky
“When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.” ThinkingWritingChildrenBookIdeasStoriesDifficultImaginationDoorsAdultsWindowExcitedNew IdeasChildren Book Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.” WorldWritingMeanYoungWiseAdultsYoung AdultCaughtInnocentPhrasesEmbodimentHoldenHolden Caulfield Author:David Levithan
“Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into school tired the next day so that you totally blow the big test and end up dropping out of school. GONE. Imagine a world where every adult vanishes in an instant.” WorldWritingEndsBigsSchoolNightReadingNextGoalGoneImagineAdultsTestsTiredBlowInstantNext DayAll NightDroppingCreepsUp All NightDropping OutDropping Out Of School Author:Michael Grant
“When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.” WritingChildrenStillsBookEnoughLostAmountAdultsEnormousChildren BookChildishness Author:Roald Dahl
“Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.” PeopleWritingJobsYoungArtistCreativeBecomingAdultsOriginalsTediousNerdy Author:David Foster Wallace
“So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis” GivingWritingImportantRealityHappensOpportunityHealingResponsibilityAdultsFaultsHealInnocentSurvivorDeniedAvenuesBassLaura Author:Ellen Bass
“I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.” WantWritingChildrenReaderAdultsMiracleOnly ChildWriting Children's Books Author:Astrid Lindgren
“What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology. Writing after Wilmut's successful cloning of the sheep, Dolly, that research on the cloning of human beings cannot be suppressed.” KnowsLifeWritingHumansAgeLawScienceHuman BeingsSuccessfulFireSourcePoliticianResearchAdultsTechniqueTricksCellsBiologyDividesInstructionSheepNew LifeLaws Of NatureGeneticsOutlawDormantCloning Author:Charles Krauthammer
“It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever be didactic, but if there’s something I do want to say, it’s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children’s novels are about getting a grip.” IfsWantWritingChildrenCharacterAbilityNovelEventsLetting GoDrawsAdultsResolutionMaking ChangesDidactic Author:Tim Wynne-Jones