Behinds Quote by Margaret Wise Brown

Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and…

— Christopher Golden

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

— Charles Hartshorne

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

— Steven Tyler

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They…

— Kirby Larson

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler

Things like 'mad as a hatter' or 'grinning like a Cheshire cat', are so powerful that music and songs incorporate the imagery. Writers, artists,…

— Tim Burton

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

— Terry Tempest Williams

As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but…

— John Burnside

“Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate…

— Tom Robbins

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to…

— Maureen Forrester

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it:…

— Patricia A. McKillip

Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is introducing the…

— Shweta Basu Prasad