Book Quote by Patricia MacLachlan

What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell…

— Anthony Browne

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 find it easier to digest a story when I can see pictures as well as words and sometimes I feel that you can…

— Joe Sugg

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

— Danielle Steel

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of…

— Mini Grey

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 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

The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.

— Marie Calloway

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the…

— Mac Barnett

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

— Slick Rick

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

— Renee Watson

Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

— Marla Frazee