Book Quote by Mac Barnett

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 love writing picture books because they are very child-centered and family-focused. The idea of creating a story within 2-5 typewritten pages is very…

— Jerdine Nolen

I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a…

— Laurie Keller

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

— Marc Brown

Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors like Jane…

— Rebecca Serle

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

Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.

— Renee Watson

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects…

— Pamela Ribon

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

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can…

— Stephan Pastis

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

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you…

— Chris Van Allsburg