Book Quote by Jonathan Shapiro

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

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

— Jennifer Egan

I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can... I might be in a financial review and be sketching…

— Mark Parker

When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of…

— Philip Roth

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I carry this little book around everywhere. It's like my journal, but also like ideas and drawings and everything.

— Iman Vellani

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle…

— John Varvatos

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

— Bill Peet

I've got a cool sketchbook that I am selling on Amazon.

— Butch Hartman

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put…

— Malcolm Gladwell

During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate…

— J. K. Rowling

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

— Richard Billingham