"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"

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"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"

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"The great cathedral space which was childhood."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Childhood, Memory, Space, Cathedral

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Childhood, Aging, Innocence, Time, Wisdom

"Only children believe they're capable of everything."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Childhood, Belief, Capability, Innocence

"The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

Childhood, Respect, Joy, Hope

"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Childhood, Man, Problem, Loss, Innocence

"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Childhood, Truth, Fear, Wisdom, Power

"For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she should watch the stars! Any girl who cannot identify the constellation of Orion just isn't paying attention!" And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked. Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe?"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Childhood, Happiness, Inspirational, Future

"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Childhood, Experience, Courage, Mother

"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Childhood, Memory, Comfort, Storytelling

"Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Childhood, Children, School, Play, Innocence

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"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."

Creativity

"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."

Nothing

"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."

Thought

"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."

Want

"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."

Work

"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."

Time

"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."

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"The great cathedral space which was childhood."

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

"Only children believe they're capable of everything."

"The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed."

"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."

"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."

"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."

"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

"Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees."

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"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."

"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."

"Each book first begins with a little idea."

"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."

"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."

"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."

"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."

"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."

"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."

"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."