I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing…

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

— Mem Fox

For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups:…

— Kate DiCamillo

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

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 often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because, um, the…

— Rebecca Serle

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

— Robert Kirkman

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

“There is a progression from pictographic, writing the picture; to ideographic, writing the idea; and then logographic, writing the word. Chinese script began this…

— James Gleick

Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors like Jane…

— Rebecca Serle

Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the…

— Rebecca Serle

I always say it's a shame picture books get such a bad rep. Illustrations are tough to sell older kids on!

— Rebecca Serle

My writing is a picture of the mind moving.

— Philip Whalen

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

— Berkeley Breathed

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and…

— Anthony Browne