“I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don't pick up a book are engaged with what I'm writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I've done my job.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsWritingBookDoneBigsKidsJobsCoursesEnjoyReaderPicksEngagedReluctant Author:Rick Riordan
“There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWritingTryingYearsWellsMayMightKidsSongRealizingBehindsKnownWonderfulLandDangerThis WorldSucceedRhythmAround The WorldMelodyDozenInchesWell KnownRight PlaceWriting SongsGreat WritersRight WordsDiapers Author:Pete Seeger
“I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.” WritingMightKidsMotherFeetDangerMomDadHusbandDaughterCrisisManagersSoccerFundConspiracyRescueThrillersAbout FamilyCover UpsSidelinesStraight UpHedge FundSoccer Mom Author:Andrew Gross
“I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.” WritingKidsNightStuffMorningBedLateCreatingBusyCreating Something Author:Natascha McElhone
“If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.” IfsWantWritingKidsDiesTakenAppreciateSuicideCommit Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.” WritingBookStoriesCareKidsSchoolDon't CareHeritageHistory Books Author:Miles Davis
“All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.” IfsWritingPersonsHas BeensDifferentKidsLastsArtistGuyAbilityOur LivesHappenedHavensDrawsYeahCome UpSecureTwelveGreat ArtEighteenBeing DifferentGreat ArtistCobblers Author:John Lennon
“I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed with something, and even though I have never been good with machines the way Hugo is, I did love miniature things when I was a kid.” WayWritingKidsMachinesObsessedMiniatures Author:Brian Selznick