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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career. ↗

— Al Yankovic

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It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. ↗

— Dick Bruna

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I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

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I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me. ↗

— Rhys Ifans

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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? ↗

— David Attenborough

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