Book Quote by Mem Fox Download Open image “Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.” — Mem Fox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Haiku Peace Picture book Picture books War Writing
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book. — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old,… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people.… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
