Any Quote by Daniel Handler

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

— Paul Virilio

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more…

— Elie Wiesel

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

“The unique pairing of verbal and visual language in the form of picture books has fascinated me forever. Having now written my own text…

— Caroline Magerl

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

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

— Stephan Pastis

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

— Brian Selznick

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a…

— Mary Higgins Clark

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and…

— Michael Ian Black

Drawing' is telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words.

— Butch Hartman

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

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius