10 GOOD REASONS TO WRITE FOR CHILDREN

These are not my personal reasons (I will tell you mine soon), but they are enough funny and serious that are worth reading.

He is Isaac Singer, a polish writer, who published many novels and children’s books and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978. On that occasion he gave a talk about why he write for children.

“There are five hundred reasons why I began to write for children, but to save time I will mention only ten of them:

1. Children read books, not reviews. They don’t give a hoot about the critics.
2. Children don’t read to find their identity.
3. They don’t read to free themselves of guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation.
4. They have no use for psychology.
5. They detest sociology.
6. They don’t try to understand Kafka or Finnegans Wake.
7. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.
8. They love interesting stories, not commentary, guides, or footnotes.
9. When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority.
10. They don’t expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.”

Well, what do you think?

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