As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
I've learned to accept that I'm a children's writer, even if it's not what I set out to become. It's what I should have been all along, and I'll stay in this role as long as I'm a writer.
Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
The desire to write grows with writing.
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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.