Book Quote by John Howe

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

— Brian Selznick

Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn…

— Michael Portillo

I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing…

— Graeme Base

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

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

— Brian Selznick

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations…

— Meg Cabot

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

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them…

— Liza Campbell

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my…

— Maurice Sendak

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

— Scott McCloud

Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?

— Mike McCready

I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well. I loved…

— Rebecca Serle