Arcades Quote by Virginia Woolf

“... a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.”

— Virginia Woolf

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

— Jeanette Winterson

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

— Thomas Kinkade

“the inevitability of turning the pages of books into online images should not prevent us from considering the side effects. To make a book…

— Nicholas Carr

“This is not a how-to book. It is a how-to-think-about-how-to book. In it I bombard you with images and metaphors with never a photograph…

— Judith Mason

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

— Maxwell Perkins

What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the…

— James W. Loewen

“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

From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.

— Kate DiCamillo

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

Books have their destinies.

— Horace

“Books aren't made of pages and words.They are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.”

— Harlequin