Art Quote by Tomie dePaola

“the way I used to turn the pages of a book to find out what happens in the final chapter”

— Rachel Cusk

A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.

— Emily Rodda

Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps…

— Philip Reeve

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

— Salman Rushdie

There's a sketch at every turn.

— J. M. W. Turner

The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all come together…

— Jyoti Arora

Each book develops a strong organic shape. And when that shape is complete, the book is complete. I don't know where the end is.…

— Diana Gabaldon

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show…

— Cornelia Funke

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the…

— Pablo Picasso

“Option 2: Begin at the End It’s sometimes a very fun way to open a book that you show the reader the last scene,…

— Emma Fisher

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

— Laurie Halse Anderson