Picture Book Quotes

30 quotes by 26 authors

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
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
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
Every word, every character in a picture book must count. — Marla Frazee
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
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
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey
I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there. — Cornelia Funke
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel. — Eve Bunting
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
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
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
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
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. — Dick Bruna
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown
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
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
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
You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house. — Patrick Dempsey

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