You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the heart of a child. Children are good, you see. And they expect good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
It is extremely important to me to write for children.
It's a wonderful thing to write for children.
Now 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 must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.
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.
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 never wrote for children. I wrote with respect for the audience, which I've maintained all my life. Doesn't mean I couldn't be risque, but I did it smartly, without being vulgar.