Ramona Quimby and the Art of Writing From a Kid's Mind | Literary Hub

I had had some babies, you see, during this period, and suddenly, I was spending all my time with children; I read only children's books; I talked only to children; I thought only about children. I had nothing to say to grown-ups, and most of the time, I didn't understand what they were saying to me. Why did they want to talk about real estate when they could talk about pterodactyls? Why were they obsessed with traffic when they could be obsessed with buried treasure? Adult conversation had become incredibly dull, and adult books, duller.

It was in this spirit that I decided I would become a children's book writer.