A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and…

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

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems…

— Sally Lloyd-Jones

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

— Mae West

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you…

— John Sayles

“Legendary comic book storyteller Will Eisner put it this way: "Technique is secondary. Technique comes as a result of how you do what you…

— Brian McDonald

“Well, he began, since we're talking about books, there is a book in my story.”

— Alexis M. Smith

“This book is a story about the Vietnam War and illustrates what a mess of a war it was for all involved. However, it…

— Rick DeStefanis

I love what I call "re-imagining," where I throw everything up in the air and let it fall in a different way. It's not…

— Megan Chance

“A book is not a battle, nor is it a conquest. A book is a story, and telling it should be an enjoyable exercise.”

— Rachel Aaron

“Everyone has a book in them, what's your story?”

— Dorothy Dubel

“If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?”

— Anonimus

For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion,…

— Sandra Brown

I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English. I prefer…

— Tania James

“There’s a moment in every book when the story and characters are finally there; they come to life, they’re in control. They do things…

— Sara Gruen

She is the film of a book of the story of the smell of her hair.

— Counting Crows