Book Quote by Chris Raschka

Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but…

— Elliott Erwitt

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can…

— Stephan Pastis

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

— Eve Bunting

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the…

— Mac Barnett

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash…

— Robert Crais

I love writing picture books because they are very child-centered and family-focused. The idea of creating a story within 2-5 typewritten pages is very…

— Jerdine Nolen

I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and…

— Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into…

— China Mieville

I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a reader. I'm…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened…

— Akira Toriyama

“the inevitability of turning the pages of books into online images should not prevent us from considering the side effects. To make a book…

— Nicholas Carr

My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book -…

— Dav Pilkey