Amount Quote by Renee Watson

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

Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors like Jane…

— Rebecca Serle

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

For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures,…

— Kadir Nelson

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

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short,…

— Margaret Mahy

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising…

— Anthony Browne

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

— Paul Auster

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

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

— Marla Frazee

I've learned that certain things are much harder than when you write about them in a book.

— Sal Khan