Artwork Quote by Chris Raschka

Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s…

— Yann Martel

“Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating, but no…

— Rachel Hartman

I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and…

— Annie Dillard

No matter how beautiful the paper, artwork, printing, and binding, I'm seldom drawn to a book unless it's by a writer I care about…

— Michael Dirda

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I…

— Salman Rushdie

Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work of art…

— James Franco

The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?

— Daniel Kaluuya

Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no…

— Maurice Sendak

Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content…

— Michael Dirda

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

— Mary Grandpre

For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures,…

— Kadir Nelson

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

— Sally Rooney