For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big…

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

— Mem Fox

I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and…

— Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most…

— Sarah Weeks

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his…

— Daniel Handler

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

— Rebecca Serle

I love writing picture books because they are very child-centered and family-focused. The idea of creating a story within 2-5 typewritten pages is very…

— Jerdine Nolen

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

— Dick Bruna

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

— Arthur Helps

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start…

— Mark Haddon

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

— Patrick Dempsey

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the…

— Mac Barnett

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger…

— Jack Prelutsky

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

— Lana Del Rey

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest…

— William Morris Hunt

A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull…

— Mo Willems