Picture Book Quotes
30 quotes by 26 authors
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
— David Attenborough
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I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils…
— Richard Paul Evans
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Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every…
— William Morris Hunt
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Every word, every character in a picture book must count.
— Marla Frazee
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house
— Patrick Dempsey
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The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.
— Dan Yaccarino
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They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.
— Lana Del Rey
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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
— Cornelia Funke
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You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
— Eve Bunting
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Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it…
— Eric Carle
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My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in…
— Dav Pilkey
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The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding…
— Chris Van Allsburg
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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books…
— Jack Prelutsky
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I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.
— Dick Bruna
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
— Margaret Wise Brown
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I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
— Emile Hirsch
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It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to…
— Margaret Mahy
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The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple…
— Margaret Mahy
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You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
— Patrick Dempsey
Who Wrote These Picture Book Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 30 Picture Book Quotes, led by these top contributors: