“Wait," Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. "I’m already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.” — Emlyn Chand Copy Share Image
“Writing picture books is like playing Tetris with only Z-pieces.” — Colleen A.F. Venable Copy Share Image
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at… — Vera Brosgol Copy Share Image
I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids… — Josh Prince Copy Share Image
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words. — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place” — Alan Dapre Copy Share Image
I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
“They must be looking everywhere for you," said Tawny, stretching out her wings to their full span - which was very far… — Suzy Davies Copy Share Image
I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
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