Book Quote by 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

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

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

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of…

— Mini Grey

In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched…

— Vera Brosgol

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

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger…

— Jack Prelutsky

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

— Terry Gilliam

I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly random drawings…

— David Shrigley

To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.

— Kate DiCamillo

I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I…

— Judy Blume

I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble…

— Patricia MacLachlan