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I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

I mean, I don't write for kids.

Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.