Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
Elizabeth BowenThe most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.
Elizabeth Bowen