Book Quote by John Tenniel

There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents a different…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

“Books are Windows of Enchantment - through them we can see - the moving spectacle of life: the farce, the tragedy. Every book a…

— Patience Strong

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

— Lee Child

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

— John Howe

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Our principle is, that books, instead of growing mouldy behind an iron grating, should be worn out under the eyes of many readers.”

— Jules Verne

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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 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

There is extensive critical scholarship that provides illustrations in many areas of scholarship. I've discussed many cases myself, while also citing and often relying…

— Noam Chomsky

I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books…

— Chris Raschka

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books.…

— Virginia Woolf