Krosoczka Quotes

#1. My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#2. Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.

Ken Kesey

#3. Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

Jane Gardam

#4. It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#5. Current estimates are that 38,000 elephants are being slaughtered each year in Africa. At this rate, elephants on that continent will all be gone in less than twenty years.

Jodi Picoult

#6. On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#7. A child can have too many toys, but never
enough books.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#8. Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

Keith Preston

#9. As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#10. My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much the only form of communication we had.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#11. What's funny is that an old Web site of mine just had one fake bio, and everyone went crazy for it. So when I made the new Web site, I thought, 'I just need to make this one even more absurd.'

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#12. Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#13. I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#14. When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began - I look to the first book that I ever wrote.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#15. Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#16. When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#17. An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#18. That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

Charles Caleb Colton

#19. MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

Hillary DePiano

#20. Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#21. When I was a kid ... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#22. You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#23. On this voyage, you will witness the marvels that this city has brought the world. It

Jarrett J. Krosoczka