Best Children's Books Quotes

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

For me, a good children’s book is a good children’s book is a good children’s book.

Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

I just wanted to be sure of you.

Great children’s books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.

Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers…at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.

…She Let Him Just Sit There and Be Happy.

I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children’s art or children’s book illustrators or illustrators in general – all the kinds of work that my paintings would draw comparisons to.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children’s books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

To me one of the most important things is launching a children’s book division.

I’m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited to my eccentricities, strengths, and passions than that of a children’s book author.

I do not remember any proper children’s books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

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.

There is no place like home.

I don’t know how to write a children’s book.

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.

The best children’s book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children’s book in them.

If I revise a children’s book, if I’m spending three hours on the first draft, I’m probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That’s hard work.

I don’t think I’m essentially interested in children’s books. I’m interested in writing, and in pictures. I’m interested in people and in children because they are people.

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

Children’s books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

To tell the truth, I don’t read children’s books. I’m an adult. I just write them.

There’s some things that you wouldn’t tackle in a children’s book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the experience of someone under the age of say ten or eleven to encompass. But that field is smaller than you might think. They can easily cope with death and things like that; they know about it and it’s a subject that often preoccupies them.

I’ve chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children’s book.

I was inspired to write children’s books, but without blood and gore.

I’ve illustrated many children’s books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes, to be able to pay the rent, but there was a yearning to do something more grown up, and something where I didn’t have to cater to anyone; I was just waiting for the material.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children’s books.