Book Quote by David Shrigley

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm…

— Sigmar Polke

You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you…

— Vera Brosgol

Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or,…

— Rebecca Serle

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 normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

— Jonathan Shapiro

“I often don’t have a clear idea of what I am going to be drawing when I start, unless it is for a very…

— Alan Lee

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to…

— Jonathan Lethem

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and…

— John Irving

The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of…

— Elizabeth Berg

I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know what they…

— Amor Towles

I don't put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and that is…

— Michael Connelly

My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and…

— Shane Carruth