Picture Books Quotes
Collection of top 59 famous quotes about Picture Books
Picture Books Quotes & Sayings
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I've never met a bug that hasn't made me jump.
— Denise Dowling Mortensen
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
— Charles Darwin
Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.
— Emlyn Chand
Oh, sweet little huggles," Mama said. "Remember what Pampy used to say when he wanted to be brave?
— Lenora Riegel
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
— J. Patrick Lewis
When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place
— Alan Dapre
You cannot grow If you are not reading.
— Andrea L'Artiste
Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture.
— Andrea L'Artiste
We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.
— Mo Willems
Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.
— John Burnside
What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?
— Sherley Mondesir-Prescott
I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.
— Mitali Perkins
One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish. She made wolf SOUNDS and did strange things ...
— Kyo Maclear
You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.
— Elizabeth George
I've read way too much on the overused/misunderstood buzzwords "Show, don't tell!" that I'm convinced all novels should now be picture books
— Michael Kroft
Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.
— Anthony Browne
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
— Jonna Amato-Ocampo
I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together.
— Sima Mittal
Every day is a good day if we are reading a picture book.
— Vivian Kirkfield
CARE - Commitment Attitude Respect Effort
— Katherine Karagiannis Richards
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
— Anthony Browne
Children's books, even good picture books, are much richer than ordinary home or classroom conversation,
— Jim Trelease
I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.
— Stephen Jay Gould
We can _start_ making Christmas and Santa can finish up.
— Toni Buzzeo
I am honored to have the opportunity to inspire the young and the young at heart through our Picture Books and author talks.
— Julie Freyermuth
People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.
— Jakub Marian
If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!
— Barbara Ann Mojica
I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.
— Rosecrans Baldwin
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.
— Anthony Browne
Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.
— Denise Fleming
I try to picture my books being acted out.
— Denise Fleming
I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
— Maggie Stiefvater
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
— Berkeley Breathed
The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged.
— Andrea L'Artiste
Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What
— Terry Pratchett
Writing picture books is like playing Tetris with only Z-pieces.
— Colleen A.F. Venable
I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.
— Debi Gliori
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
— William Goldman
I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.
— Jane Yolen
On the Writing Process:When in doubt, take it out., — Barbara DaCosta
Toilet paper unrolled and slitheredthen wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll me up
into an Egyptian mummy. — Melinda K. Trotter
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
— Beverly Cleary
People like dialogue. Being a part of it or reading it. Me personally, I'd rather write it.
— Andrea L'Artiste
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace
— Amanda M. Thrasher
Wait," Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. "I'm already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.
— Emlyn Chand
Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.
— Anthony Browne
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures ... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky