Marla Frazee Quotes

• I do believe this to be the over-arching philosophy behind most of the books I've fallen in love with over the years. The more personal and heartfelt the story is for the author and/or illustrator of the book, the more universal the emotion that can be gleaned from it.

  Marla Frazee

  Philosophy, Believe, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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

  Marla Frazee

  Book, Character, Picture Books

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• What I had to do was learn how to tell stories with my pictures. At first I didn't even know what that meant because I thought I was already doing it. After all these years of drawing stories and trying to teach it, I think it boils down to a pretty simple rule: it takes time to get to know the characters in a book and the world they inhabit. My first sketches are always horrible. Stereotypical. Contrived. Generic. I have to put in the time in order to deepen them and have it all mean something.

  Marla Frazee

  Book, Character, Mean

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

  Marla Frazee

  Book, Emotional, Needs

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• When I personally feel like I belong to the world, it is because I am with people I love in places I love. So I decided that would be my solution. I set All the World in a place I love - the central coast region of Southern California - and populated it with people and things that I love. I stopped worrying that I wasn't representing every place, every person, every possible experience. And I hoped that through this personal expression of mine, others would find their own personal meanings as well.

  Marla Frazee

  People, Worry, Southern

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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