Adulthood Quote by Paul Auster

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from…

— John Updike

“I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way…

— Ellen Raskin

“What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling paintings in…

— Gregory Maguire

When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out…

— Rick Riordan

I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to…

— Lynne Rae Perkins

“I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms, days home sick from school reading…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“All the pictures in this book are authentic, vintage found photographs, and with the exception of a few that have undergone minimal postprocessing, they…

— Ransom Riggs

“The mental Images were liquifying So I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen in detailed…

— Kathy Reichs

Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as…

— Anthony Browne

“These pictures from the photo albums of my childhood are artifacts of a time when I was happy and whole. They are evidence that,…

— Roxane Gay

Everything when I was a kid was illustrated.

— Kate DiCamillo

I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well. I loved…

— Rebecca Serle