Book Quote by Dick Bruna

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.

— Jeff VanderMeer

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

— Alexander Gordon Smith

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be…

— Sally Hawkins

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea…

— Dick Bruna

My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long…

— Philip Schultz

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

— John Howe

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention…

— Pierre Loti

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

— Rick Moody

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

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my…

— Hokusai

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and…

— Viggo Mortensen

I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed…

— Nancy Spero