Book Quote by Maurice Sendak

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

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

— Paul Auster

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

— Renee Watson

For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures,…

— Kadir Nelson

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words…

— Anonymous

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash…

— Robert Crais

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

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

— Jeanette Winterson

The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most…

— Sarah Weeks

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though…

— Garth Ennis

I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

— Harmony Korine

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

— Dav Pilkey