Always Quote by Anthony Browne

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

— Kate DiCamillo

Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.

— Renee Watson

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

— Harlan Coben

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

— Mason Cooley

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

— Sally Rooney

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum…

— Jane Goodall

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

— Ruskin Bond

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

I was very into books.

— Lauren Ridloff

Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

— Marla Frazee

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

— Philip Reeve

Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a…

— Ron McLarty