David Small

Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think…

— David Small

I open journal, I look at the picture and I remember where I was. And I remember the time of day, the…

— David Small

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…

— David Small

Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get,…

— David Small

I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the…

— David Small

.... When you have no voice, you don't exist

— David Small

I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night…

— David Small

I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or…

— David Small

Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing…

— David Small

I found great value in teaching students from the outset of their studies how to draw very realistically. Otherwise, you're starting deep…

— David Small

I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I…

— David Small

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know…

— David Small

Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That…

— David Small

By the time that book So You Want to Be President? came along, we had already had enough presidents that had shown…

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I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness…

— David Small

Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only…

— David Small

My friend advised me to go into studying art, which at first shocked me because art was so easy. It was just…

— David Small

I began drawing probably when I was - around the same time everybody else puts a mark on a piece of paper…

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I'm a reader. I like - I'm a great reader. I keep going back, though, to certain authors, just like I love…

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I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film…

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You have to get through periods of being blocked. Everybody has them. For me, they have everything to do with self-doubt. It's…

— David Small

I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and…

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My interest really is psychology, what's going on in people's minds as revealed on their faces and in their posture. That is…

— David Small

What I try to do in my picture books is to be all-inclusive, but not exclusive, to not exclude the kid and…

— David Small

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way.…

— David Small