Enid Blyton
Related More than 60 percent of low-income families have no books in their homes for children. BARBARA WALKER I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in... CHERYL BENARD I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, count... SUSAN STRAIGHT DANNY KAYE Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the bo... TIBOR FISCHER PEWDIEPIE Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as dem... DAVID WALLIAMS I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough b... ZOë MARRIOTT I love books.ELIZABET SCOTT Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have be... ROALD DAHL E. L. KONIGSBURG I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contai... WILLIAM JONES Winning the Guardian prize is a wonderful reward for any writer. It is such a distinguished award, .... JACQUELINE WILSON Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. ANNIE BARROWS MARY ANN SHAFFER I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. ELEANOR CATTON MORRISSEY BILL COSBY NATALIE BABBITT CHAMFORT CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are more jokes about losers than there are books about losers. The most common volumes you see... NELSON WARFIELD ALEX HALEY ALEX HALEY Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear,... ELLEN DATLOW I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But... ELLEN POTTER SAM BROWNBACK MOBY I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I fou... ALBERTO MANGUEL URSULA K. LE GUIN ROXANE GAY CORY DOCTOROW ALEX HALEY When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than w... O. R. MELLING ASHWIN SANGHI F. SCOTT FITZGERALD KATE THOMPSON GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il... WILLIAM DONELSON I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts c... NALO HOPKINSON RALPH WALDO EMERSON AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT JANE HADDAM Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's... MALORIE BLACKMAN NEWT GINGRICH DIANE SETTERFIELD MARGUERITE YOURCENAR I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for childre... JEWEL I'm really picky about our post players. I probably talk to Cory more than any of our other players. JEFF QUACKENBUSH In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, ... JOHNNY ISAKSON I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day. JO WALTON LEE UNKRICH MICHAEL MORPURGO ELIZABETH SCOTT JAMES PATTERSON ELVIS COSTELLO I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their ... BEVERLY CLEARY MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN The books the children get to choose from are always brand new books. We try to have a mixture of re... DONNA CLAPP KURT VONNEGUT KURT VONNEGUT JR. People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometim... PETER SIS I never wrote my books especially for children. P. L. TRAVERS NEIL GAIMAN To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religio... RUDOLF OTTO I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to... KATHERINE RUNDELL We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know h... DAVID SATCHER I feel sometimes that [in children's books] there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know ... BEVERLY CLEARY JOSEPH JOUBERT ERMA BOMBECK SARAH VOWELL BRUCE COVILLE Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture ... ANTHONY BROWNE The to-read pile is more than just a physical stack of books: it's a tower of ambitions failed, hope... SAM JORDISON They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I t... PHILIP KAUFMAN LANGSTON HUGHES JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER KATHERINE PATERSON It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them. JEAN WEBSTER JACKIE COLLINS When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people... ROALD DAHL SHANNON L. ALDER Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others. DAVID MACAULAY If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important. ROALD DAHL JACK CANFIELD WALTER MOSLEY I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok. EDDIE HUANG We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo... ALICE MOORE CAROLYN COATS Florida stands to gain the most from open trade and business with Cuba. More companies have visited ... KIRBY JONES W.E.B. DU BOIS CHRISTY TURLINGTON We are not just looking for the cute or the most popular books. Our company has a mission to find bo... MARTHA GAMERMAN MARK TWAIN Most ballets are more interesting than most men. PATRICIA MCBRIDE Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the... KATHLEEN SEBELIUS The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especia... DAVID GROSS BARBARA JORDAN PETER SHAFFER
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I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious... 
Save the Children is an awesome charity that has helped more than 125 million children around the wo... 
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let... 
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. 
There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more. 
Children today know more about sex than I or my father did. 
I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all ... 
Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day 
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? 
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. 
I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successfu... 
Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per... 
More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than ... 
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor... 
Books are often far more than just books. 
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so... 
I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful... 
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a sto... 
I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway 
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at... 
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... 
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. 
I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character. 
In five or six days, I can meet more interesting people here than any place I know, 
Of course I loved books more than people. 
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children. 
If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that wer... 
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas... 
I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, in... 
I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time... 
Songs are more powerful than books. 
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop 
The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. 
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us hu... 
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us hu... 
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. 
Children have more need of models than critics. 
Never have more children than you have car windows. 
I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy w... 
In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written every... 
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can ... 
Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than thei... 
All of us can think of a book that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off... 
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t... 
The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Eve... 
For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, a... 
I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I... 
Children have more need of models than of critics. 
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. 
Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deat... 
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. 
Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it 
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he'... 
The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well ... 
I think people make their own faces, as they grow. 
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to g... 
Unhurt people are not much good in the world. 
Judges don't age; time decorates them. 
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back ag... 
Unhurt people are not much good in the world