Illustrated Children S Book Quotes

#1. There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.

Joe Rohde

#2. There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

Brian K. Vaughan

#3. 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

#4. Happy is measuring your life against the options and not wanting to change it. It's getting the best of a series of bargains, bad or otherwise.

Chaz Brenchley

#5. Art should be a place of hope, not doubt. And your doubts rise from inexperience, which is not a dishonorable thing.

Stephen King

#6. Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.

Florence Williams

#7. I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

Howard Nemerov

#8. I have different reasons for the way that I react to things now that I have kids. It's not about me, it's about my children going out into this world that makes me say, "What the hell are you all doing?" I have to put them out there, and then I have to worry.

Pat Benatar

#9. Who can describe
Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

Thomas Otway

#10. My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity - , but to love it ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. 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

#12. This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan.

Hamid Karzai

#13. Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.

Francesca Lia Block

#14. This is Detective Miller. He died when Eros hit Venus and now he's a puppet of the protomolecule."
"Semi-autonomous," the alien said.
"Pleased to meet you."
"Likewise.

James S.A. Corey

#15. by repeated, simulated visual enactment,

Anonymous

#16. Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

Carol Hovsepian

#17. Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

Mick Rock

#18. 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

#19. Women, in general, are very passionate fans, and that's what you love about them.

Melissa Rosenberg

#20. When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!

Mehmet Murat Ildan