Art Quote by Rebecca Serle

I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing…

— Graeme Base

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

— Brian Selznick

My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures…

— Dav Pilkey

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

— Sean Durkin

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

— Natsuo Kirino

I read comic books when I was a kid. Now I have a passion for art and galleries that I think came from that.…

— Frank Skinner

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

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens…

— Russell Banks

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person…

— Tomie dePaola

My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to…

— David Rockefeller

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

— Fay Godwin

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while,…

— Colleen Haskell