I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night because it would be better to turn all that stuff into dreams; it would be better if I… — David Small Copy Share Image
Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much… — David Small Copy Share Image
I open journal, I look at the picture and I remember where I was. And I remember the time of day, the temperature of the air, what music was playing, or who was talking to me, or who was looking over my shoulder and what conversations we had and the smells of the earth and the time of year it… — David Small Copy Share
I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I… — David Small Copy Share Image
Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think. — David Small Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the curriculum. There's… — David Small Copy Share Image
I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night because it… — David Small Copy Share Image
I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or another. So I think there's a lot of kids who relate to my story. They also relate to the fact that I got out of it. And I tell them that my refuge from all that was books… — David Small Copy Share
Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes… — David Small Copy Share Image
I found great value in teaching students from the outset of their studies how to draw very realistically. Otherwise, you're starting deep into the… — David Small Copy Share Image
I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I used to be furious with them if they didn't read, because they just seemed so - their education seemed so thin if all they could do was pick up a paint-loaded brush and fling it at a canvas.… — David Small Copy Share
I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're… — David Small Copy Share Image
