A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have…

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

— Mem Fox

though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it afterwards. Thus…

— Jon Krakauer

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

— Eve Bunting

When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out…

— Rick Riordan

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

— Dick Bruna

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

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

— Arthur Helps

Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps…

— Philip Reeve