Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
It is extremely important to me to write for children.
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
I'm really connected to people, and my relationships with people are paramount, so I write about relationships, particularly strong female ones. In my family, there were six girls born in five years. We were best friends. And my parents raised all of us as first-class citizens.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.