Gentle Quote by Maurice Sendak

“The Tale of Peter Rabbit Table of Contents”

— Beatrix Potter

Here's what I think: the best author photo ever taken is the author photo of you holding your extra-large engulfing rabbit and looking straight…

— Patricia Lockwood

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's…

— Chris Van Allsburg

When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression,…

— Kate Bernheimer

“My earliest recollection is of coming upon some rabbit tracks in the backyard snow. I must have been three or so, but I had…

— Matthew Scully

“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but…

— Italo Calvino

“A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of…

— Alain De Botton

“Sometimes a story catches your imagination so much it has to be told. That is what I love about writing. It lets the images…

— S.E. Smith

The rabbit's not like us. It has no history books, no photographs, no knowledge of sorrow or regret. I mean, I'm sorry, Miss Pommeroy.…

— Donnie Darko

We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

— Nikki Giovanni

“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing…

— Virginia Woolf

“It’s humbling, though, to think of all the stories that used to be, when they were at their best - before they were stories,…

— Paul Glennon