--- title: "3 Wallace Tripp Quotes - Famous Anthologist (Amelia Bedelia)" description: "Wallace Whitney Tripp was an American illustrator, anthologist and author. He was known for creating anthropomorphic animal characters of emotional comp..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wallace-tripp-94270.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Wallace Tripp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wallace-tripp-94270.jpg) # Wallace Tripp (1940–2018) Anthologist United States **3** quotes in **29** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Wallace Tripp was an anthologist from the United States, best known for *Amelia Bedelia*. ## Quick Facts About Wallace Tripp Born June 26, 1940 Died September 9, 2018 Nationality United States Profession Anthologist Notable works Amelia Bedelia ## About Wallace Tripp Wallace Whitney Tripp was an American illustrator, anthologist and author. He was known for creating anthropomorphic animal characters of emotional complexity and for his great visual and verbal humor. He was one of several illustrators of the Amelia Bedelia series of children's stories. He has illustrated over 40 books, including Marguerite, Go Wash Your Feet (1985), Wallace Tripp's Wurst Seller (1981), Casey at the Bat (1978) and A Great Big Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse to Me (1973). Tripp also drew many greeting cards for the Pawprints line. ## Quotes by Wallace Tripp > [Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-tripp/illustrators-are-word-people-who-happen-to-draw-we-work-with-one-foot/) Wallace Tripp [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/wallace-tripp-86114_book_illustrators-are-word-people-who-happen_1923560.jpg) > [The experienced illustrator subscribes to the principle of the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-tripp/the-experienced-illustrator-subscribes-to-the-principle-of-the/) Wallace Tripp [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30b/wallace-tripp-86114_another-way_the-experienced-illustrator-subscribes-t_3150577.jpg) > [The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-tripp/the-first-ten-thousand-drawings-are-the-hardest-put-another-way-you/) Wallace Tripp [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/wallace-tripp-86114_another-way_the-first-ten-thousand-drawings-are-the_3214261.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-tripp/#itemlist", "name": "Wallace Tripp Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. 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