Picture Books Quotes

43 Picture Books quotes by 34 unique 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
All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times — Rosemary Wells
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words… — Maurice Sendak
Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something. — Marla Frazee
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. — Unknown Author
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
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales — Carol Ann Duffy
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
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book… — Al Yankovic
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 hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books… — Anthony Browne
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. — Dick Bruna
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading… — Beverly Cleary
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. — Anthony Browne
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

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