Top 24 Book Illustrator Quotes
#1. I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
Natalie Babbitt
#2. Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
Walter Dean Myers
#3. I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.
Dave McKean
#4. There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.
Jose Maria Aznar
#5. In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
Charles Leadbeater
#6. I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.
Philip Reeve
#7. And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.
Brian Michael Bendis
#8. Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense.
Julie Anne Long
#9. I was planning a death, not a burglary, but in many ways that just made it easier. Taking a life was, in my experience, a damned sight less complicated than taking jewels from a hidden strongbox.
Michael McClung
#10. There is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond
J.K. Rowling
#11. My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
Natalie Babbitt
#12. Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.
William J. Clinton
#13. The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.
Jim Capaldi
#14. Sutter Laughed. You were just being honest. Maybe needed is the wrong word. Wanted. I want to be wanted. I want to be someone's air. I want to feel like my presence makes their life better, just by simply existing.
Ashley Jeffery
#15. Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.
Philip Reeve
#17. I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together.
Sima Mittal
#18. What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#19. ~Reading a book is like looking through a window!
Zetta Hupf
#20. I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
Annie Lennox
#21. When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
Daniel Handler
#22. I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine ...
John Geddes
#23. Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
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