Bigger Quote by Jack Prelutsky

The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most…

— Sarah Weeks

Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.

— Renee Watson

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

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 novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short,…

— Margaret Mahy

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

Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors like Jane…

— Rebecca Serle

The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is slightly easier,…

— Nick Laird

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing…

— Walter Mosley

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

— Walter Jon Williams

I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a…

— Laurie Keller