Around Quote by Judith Viorst

When I was little I used to wish I could talk to the illustrators because I wanted to discuss something about the books. With…

— Jan Brett

I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about…

— Philip Reeve

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to…

— Natalie Babbitt

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children…

— Quentin Blake

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

— Kate DiCamillo

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

— Boyd Holbrook

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture…

— Tove Jansson

I was writing a lot even as a kid.

— Hailey Gates

I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.

— Paula Scher

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's…

— Dick Bruna