Picture Books Quotes - Page 1

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
Carol Ann Duffy / Poet
Fairy
Picture Books
Tales
Fairy Tales
Copy Quote
Every word, every character in a picture book must count.
Marla Frazee / Author
Book
Character
Picture Books
Copy Quote
I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.
Anthony Browne / Writer
Picture Books
Copy Quote
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
Anthony Browne / Writer
Book
Boys
Picture Books
Describe
Devoured
Picture Book
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Picture Books
Copy Quote
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.
Rebecca Serle /
Picture Books
Copy Quote
I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.
Jane Yolen / Writer
Amazing
Picture Books
Wonderful
Picture
Books
Full
Stretch
Copy Quote
I always say it's a shame picture books get such a bad rep. Illustrations are tough to sell older kids on!
Rebecca Serle /
Picture Books
Tough
Picture
Books
Sell
Older
Illustrations
Rep
Copy Quote
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.
Anthony Browne / Writer
Importance
Picture Books
Bond
Develops
Your Child
Copy Quote
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
Anthony Browne / Writer
Design
Book
Daddy
Picture Books
Psychology
Rhythm
Copy Quote
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 / Writer
Bedroom
Museums
Picture Books
Posters
Shelves
Wall
Picture
Visits
Copy Quote
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 / Cartoonist
Optimistic
Backwards
Picture Books
Beat
Emotionally
Copy Quote
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 / Writer
My Time
Picture Books
Copy Quote
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 / Writer
Picture Books
Understood
Best Time Me
Gorilla
Copy Quote
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 /
Picture Books
Right Words
Verbs
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Chance
Book
Picture Books
Reading
Twins
Picture
Aloud
Sit
Copy Quote
I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.
Jane Yolen / Writer
Eye
Listeners
Picture Books
Please
Believe I Believe Everything
Picture
Aloud
Books
Read
Ear
Writers
Novels
Copy Quote
I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.
Mini Grey /
Picture Books
Versions
Double
Copy Quote
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.
Chris Van Allsburg / Illustrator
Picture Books
Almost All
Occur
Specifically
Underserved
Copy Quote
I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because, um, the classics hold up so well.
Rebecca Serle /
Lament
Picture Books
Classics
Complaint
Um
Copy Quote
Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also in fashion and interior design.
Rumaan Alam /
Picture Books
Discussed
Interior
Racial
Copy Quote
Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors like Jane O'Connor and Jon Scieszka.
Rebecca Serle /
Jane
Picture Books
Skillful
Authors
Jon
Count
Unbelievably
Vein
Copy Quote
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.
Anthony Browne / Writer
Age
Picture Books
Share
Picture
Life Age Important
Books
Illustrations
Incredibly
Paintings
Stays
Copy Quote
I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.
Daniel Handler / Author
Book
Dark
Picture Books
Thinking
Embarked
Otherwise
Copy Quote
When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they were reading my picture books, and now they're telling me how much they enjoy my novels.
Grace Lin / Writer
Picture Books
Book Signings
Copy Quote
One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.
Anthony Browne / Writer
Picture Books
Illustrate
Laureate
Copy Quote
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.
Anthony Browne / Writer
Picture Books
Earlier
Marginalised
Proper
Copy Quote
What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.
Anthony Browne / Writer
Picture Books
Thinking Me Words
Different Story
Excites
Gap
Slightly
Copy Quote
You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture books, love stories and stories of crisis and courage.
Sonia Levitin /
Courage
Crisis
Historical
Picture Books
Teens
Variety
Adult
Love Great Children
Picture
Love Stories
Mysteries
Notice
Offer
Copy Quote
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
Al Yankovic / Singer-Songwriter
Book
Children
Picture Books
Reading
Wanting
Copy Quote
The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done with my picture books. It's really rewarding to think that they can grow up reading my books at all the different levels.
Grace Lin / Writer
Different Levels
Levels
Picture Books
Grow Up
In-Between
Novels
Readers
Rewarding
Copy Quote
I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well. I loved the economy of this art form, choosing, with pristine attention, the exact right words to tell the exact right story.
Rebecca Serle /
Picture Books
Pristine
Right Words
Young Adult
Art Form
Choosing
Exact
Pursuing
Copy Quote
The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.
Mini Grey /
Costumes
Pens
Picture Books
Great Thing
Copy Quote
I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.
Andrew Clements / Author
Adventure
Memories
Mystery
Picture Books
Reader
Aloud
Copy Quote
I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me!
Berlie Doherty / Novelist
Picture Books
Reader
Life Love Me
Visual
Story Books
Inner
Journeys
Copy Quote
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
Anthony Browne / Writer
Age
Imagination
Book
Excitement
Filled
Left
Picture Books
Reader
Everybody
Words
Picture
Adding
Grow
Behind
Leave
Gap
Older
Copy Quote
In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!
Bruce Coville / Author
Covered
Picture Books
Range
Retired
Wide
Chapter
Editor
Grade
Magazine
Ya
Copy Quote
I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read aloud to us all. There weren't that many picture books around in the Fifties in Zimbabwe. My favourite was Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, which was really frightening.
Korky Paul /
Favourite
Frightening
Picture Books
Zimbabwe
Aloud
Fifties
Copy Quote
My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building.
Russell Smith /
Conflict
Interesting
Models
Ninja
Picture Books
Resolution
Smashing
Son
Stories
Ugly
Picture
Books
Creature
Craves
Hulk
Page
Transformers
Copy Quote
When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!
Jane Yolen / Writer
Arithmetic
Fanatics
Fantasy
Moon
Picture Books
Prose
Selling
Stunned
Picture
Books
Public
Dinosaur
Realize
Sense
Sf
Copy Quote
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.
Rhea Perlman / Actress
Chapters
Leap
Lifetime
Pages
Picture Books
Reader
Sentences
Chapter
Laborious
Copy Quote
More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story.
Marissa Moss / Author
Notebook
Best Work
Conventional
Format
Leap
Picture Books
Best Work Me
Illustrate
Images
Inspires
Reflects
Replace
Text
Verbally
Copy Quote

Top Authors

Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Commander
Tuesday, Aug 15, 1769
Saturday, May 05, 1821
Michael Jordan
Basketball Player
Sunday, Feb 17, 1963
Billy Graham
Professional Wrestler
Monday, Jun 07, 1943
George Orwell
Novelist
Thursday, Jun 25, 1903
Saturday, Jan 21, 1950
Henry David Thoreau
Author
Saturday, Jul 12, 1817
Tuesday, May 06, 1862
Mahatma Gandhi
Civil Rights Leader
Saturday, Oct 02, 1869
Friday, Jan 30, 1948
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet
Saturday, Aug 05, 1809
Thursday, Oct 06, 1892
Epictetus
Philosopher
Joe Biden
Vice President Of The United States
Friday, Nov 20, 1942
Mother Teresa
Saint
Friday, Aug 26, 1910
Friday, Sep 05, 1997
Dalai Lama
Saturday, Jul 06, 1935
Theodore Roosevelt
26Th U.s. President
Wednesday, Oct 27, 1858
Monday, Jan 06, 1919
Barack Obama
44Th U.s. President
Friday, Aug 04, 1961
Groucho Marx
Comedian
Thursday, Oct 02, 1890
Friday, Aug 19, 1977
Deepak Chopra
Author
Wednesday, Oct 22, 1947

View All Authors

Picture Books Quotes - Page 1

App & Tools

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page