Top 30 Books Illustrated Quotes
#1. Julia really likes school and she is one of the top students. Mikolay doesn't mind the weekend school because he is allowed
to do lots of magic, which he really likes and is very good at.
Magda M. Olchawska
#2. A glassy calm replaced the storm surrounding their boat.
The distant thunder struck a note, white-hot and remote.
An invisible magnet seemed to steer their course.
The island pulled them in with its dreamy force.
J.Z. Bingham
#3. Sometimes you must slow down to see that the world isnt spinning, rather its your own mind which makes things turn
Sedrie Danielle
#4. Me & my fellow fairies are running away from a huge monster that keeps destroying our home land,sobbed Farina.
The monster is terribly scary,has huge jaws, creates clouds of smoke & makes loads of noise everywhere it goes.
Magda M. Olchawska
#5. I've never met any artist who illustrated one of my books, although I've corresponded briefly with one. I have always been impressed by the technical expertise involved in the covers, even if sometimes puzzled by the subject matter.
Jane Lindskold
#6. I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
Jamie Wyeth
#7. The room was full of magical objects, animals, photographs, paintings, strange looking plants and many flying books. I only found this room a few days ago and it seems that it keeps changing every time I come.
Magda M. Olchawska
#8. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.
Neil Gaiman
#9. Suddenly, the shadow disappeared through the wall!
Maybe the shadow disappeared again.Can we please go back home now?I really don't like it here & I'm scared! Julia pleaded.
The shadow was standing by a very small cage, pointing its long, thin finger towards the floor.
Magda M. Olchawska
#10. In Dark Places,
May we Never be truly Alone.....
~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books
Susan Schroder
#11. My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#13. Mikolay and Julia live in the same neighborhood and go to
the same school every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Magda M. Olchawska
#14. We need to get to the other side of the lake if you want to help the fairies," said Mikolay.We could use my crystal ball for transportation," suggested Julia pulling out a small crystal ball out of her pocket.
Magda M. Olchawska
#15. People may think that because I have illustrated and written all these books it must be easy for me, but it's not really easy for me. The drawing part is easy - I love doing it. But continuing to move forward is hard.
Jan Brett
#16. But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don't want people to destroy everything!
Magda M. Olchawska
#17. I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes, to be able to pay the rent, but there was a yearning to do something more grown up, and something where I didn't have to cater to anyone; I was just waiting for the material.
Sophie Blackall
#18. I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
Vladimir Nabokov
#19. Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids.
Magda M. Olchawska
#20. Come on, this is a real adventure I have here, screamed Mikolay again, this time more impatiently.I think someone is singing inside the wardrobe. Can you hear that?
Magda M. Olchawska
#21. When Mikolay and Julia are not at school, they usually go exploring and adventuring.
Mikolay's and Julia's mummies are both witches and are in charge of fixing things.
Magda M. Olchawska
#22. But since printing came in no one wants illustrated works, they are happy with these cheap books with their ugly, square letters all squashed together.
C.J. Sansom
#23. For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.
Brian Selznick
#24. Wow! gasped Julia. They saw 20 or more young children of every sort lying
on the cold, bare ground.
Magda M. Olchawska
#25. 'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.
Jon Scieszka
#26. I love fairies so much. I would so love to touch one, whispered Julia in excitement.
"U can touch me.But please don't touch my wings,they are very fragile,"replied 1 fairy."I'm Farina,the fairy queen.
Magda M. Olchawska
#27. If you use magic outside the school, we are going to get into more trouble than ever. I'm still not allowed to eat sweets after the last trouble we got into. They will lock us up and there will be no sweets and no adventuring ever again.
Magda M. Olchawska
#28. We live in the fairy forest of huge trees which is on the other side of the lake, said Farina.
Magda M. Olchawska
#29. Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.
Zack Snyder
#30. Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
Chris Riddell
