Picture Books Quotes - Page 2

• I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

  Cornelia Funke

  Brother, Children, Book

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• My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in a novel format. So I wrote incredibly short chapters and tried to fill each page with more pictures than words. I wanted to create a book that kids who don't like to read would want to read.

  Dav Pilkey

  Book, Adventure, Kids

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• I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Book, Writing, Fairy Tale

  "Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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  They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

  Lana Del Rey

  Book, Color, Judging

  Song: Brooklyn Baby, Album: Ultraviolence, 2014

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• The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

  Dan Yaccarino

  Book, Stories, Driving

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• I remember the special quiet of rainy days
  when I felt that I could enter the pages
  of my beautiful picture books.
  Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing
  that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists.
  The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope
  others as well, that such places might be real.

  Jan Brett

  Beautiful, Real, Book

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• Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house

  Patrick Dempsey

  Book, Kids, House

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• Every word, every character in a picture book must count.

  Marla Frazee

  Book, Character

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• I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished ... do I begin the pictures.

  Maurice Sendak

  Book, Writing, Years

  Maurice Sendak, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, Angel, Wings

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “The Christmas Box: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• <...> though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it afterwards. Thus the story has no picture book for the period May 10, 1991 - January 7, 1992. But this is not important. It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.

  Jon Krakauer

  Memories, Stupid, Real

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• 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

  Book, Mean, Lasts

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.127, A&C Black

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• On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her.

  James Frey

  Children, Moving, Book

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.57, Anchor

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• Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

  Mem Fox

  War, Book, Writing

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• When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Long

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• 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

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. 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

  Appreciation, Children, Book

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• I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

  Dick Bruna

  Nice, Book, Want

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• There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Book, Writing, Differences

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• If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Kids, Imperfection

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• You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Book, House, Insane

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• I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

  Emile Hirsch

  Book, Car, Quality

  "Fast-talking: Hirsch, Ricci share thoughts on `Speed Racer'". Interview with David Germain, www.foxnews.com. May 6, 2008.

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• The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Book, Writing, Effort

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• Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

  Anthony Browne

  Book, Age, Left Behind

  "Gorilla artist Anthony Browne becomes children's laureate" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2009.

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• Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Action

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