Quotes by Illustrators - Page 25

They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?
Adam Rex
Stil it takes you strange walking in your old foot steps like that. Putting your groan up foot where your chyld foot run nor dint know nothing what wer coming.
Russell Hoban
(after Quigley explains that the ghosts have been feeding off of their misery)Toma: So, what, we should think happy thoughts?!Duane: That is not a talent of mine.
Ashley Cope
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Colleen Wilcox
To live at all is miracle enough.
Mervyn Peake
I was asked, ‘When is the next book release, it’s been over a year since the last book release, have you given up writing?” Again a senseless question by a Sri Lankan journalist. Does it mean that being a writer means you have to release a book every month? Do they count a writer’s success by the quantity of books or the quality of the work? I am concerned about the quality of work, not the quantity of books that I release. One can publish hundreds of books within a couple of years today as technology is advance and cheap, but keeping the quality of the work is something you cannot depend of technology and money. It is the quality of thinking of the writer which should reflect through their work. I have been in the field for almost 2 and a half years, learnt a lot through trial and error, learn through my mistakes. I am no longer bothered about the number of books I write, how much I spend or how much I earn, my only focus is to do something quality which will last long, even after I am gone, something that will touch the soul of the readers. Will these journalists understand a soul of an artist? In this big dirty game of ‘media mafia’, ‘artists’ are only marketing ideas.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
The single biggest advantage of being completely surrounded is that it gives you the opportunity to attack the enemy in any direction you choose.
James A. Owen
The rural, mid-19th-century dialect, coupled with the author's interest in ethnobotany, roots the story deeply in the houses, forests, gardens, and even streambeds of antebellum Virginia. –School Library Journal
Sharon Lovejoy
Language is power that gets abused all the time, Robin, but we've got real enemies out there somewhere and until they're out of the picture, I won't get knotted up over people who don't get all the words right. It's a waste of energy.
Tim Eldred
…this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.
Jerry Pinkney
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
Edward Gorey
If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.
Tony Millionaire
It is not as if I want to be a princess. Since I was four years old I've spent every birthday, shooting star, wishbone, and lost eyelash wishing I did not have to be a princess!
Mili Fay
Sex is a metaphor for everything else and everything is a metaphor for sex as well. Because sex is a coming together of two weather patterns, two separate countries, two entities in a conscious state of potentially blissful crisis. Or chaos, or harmony. You’re not quite sure what’s going to happen, but it is the most catastrophic, exciting, and weakening thing that can happen to us. If we are personally involved in it, every fiber of our being is made self-conscious, or is encourages to unify on some level with others. We are delicate. We bring our damage to sexuality, we bring our hopes, we bring our self-image, we bring our world-image, we bring what we believe we are/what we believe we aren’t, our blind spots, our prejudices, our sadness. Everything comes out. A lot of people are left wanting, and confusing, and having the idea that their body is like an unloved apartment building; it’s up for grabs and it’s of absolutely no worth. If we feel that way about ourselves and if we feel that way about others, then of course, sex is nothing more than a lot of rubbing and some kind of release. But the more we are, the more we can feel, the more we can empathize, the more human we are.
Melinda Gebbie
Sometimes LIFE is rough and tough. That's still NO excuse for you to be.
Tanya Masse
When your ship comes in, don't be in the bathroom with your pants around your ankles." quoted by Frank McNichols, father of Rose McNichols in A Nose for Hanky Panky, a Granite Cove Mystery
Sharon Love Cook
And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.
Mark Haddon
But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?
Tove Jansson
As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
Cornelia Funke
Perfection doesn't exist here, AWESOME does.
Tanya Masse
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
Andrew Wyeth
The rebuke came, keen-edged. ‘Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he’s about.
Janny Wurts
People cannot live forever, but memories can. Never pass up an opportunity to create awesome memories with your special ones.
Tanya Masse
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
Cornelia Funke
Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.
Michael Poeltl
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
Cornelia Funke
What is evil?' asked the Fiend
Joseph Delaney
Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.
Cornelia Funke
Friends don't leave friends behind to wash dishes for yetis!
Philip Reeve
Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.
Janaki Sooriyarachchi
You didn't play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you're going to make it with one? "If you're just going to tell me what I can't do, you can leave.
Mary Jane Auch
People say that a dog can sense the longing of a person, so perhaps he's barking in response to your heart.
Kim Dong Hwa
When you look at it objectively, that’s what most colonists do—they land then find a way of wiping out their competition. In America is was blankets covered with smallpox and in Australia it was permits to hunt aborigines. If you wipe a whole people from the face of the earth, then there’s no one to point fingers at you. It’s just their spirits that haunt you and spirits can’t do shit.
Alex Latimer
The time to right the wrong ticks with precission.
Aneta Cruz
practice makes better
Brian Lies
Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
Shiro Amano
The family that reads together grows together!
Carmela Dutra
Two things define you in this life. Your attitude when you are at your highest and your attitude when you are at your lowest. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to recognize and define what truly matters.
Tanya Masse
You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
Maurice Sendak
You have the courage and will to overcome your fear and do what's required.
Henry H. Neff
We all have our things that we would rather live without. It's how we live with them when we have no choice that makes us or breaks us.
Tanya Masse
If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.
Cornelia Funke
This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with Red Hot Chili Peppers playing.
Mariko Tamaki
All stories are true. But some of them never happened.
James A. Owen
Any time you design a character for a Disney picture, especially a fairy tale, it's going to become the definitive design for that character, so you don't want to hack something out. You need to put in the kind of care it warrants if it's going to live in history.
Glen Keane
i love walking in the rain because no one knows im dying
Christopher Myers
In the book, hummin bins made castles, and towers up to the sky. They tamed the animals and took care of them. And hummin bins helped each other. They were always good."When I was done, Ma asked, 'Delly, what are hummin bins?' 'They're like people, but better,' I said. Then I told her, 'When I grow up, I'm going to live with the hummin bins,' and she smiled."But Galveston grabbed the book, 'Let me see that,' she said, and started laughing. 'This says human beings. There's no such things as hummin bins.'"'Ma, is it true?' I asked, and she nodded. 'How come you didn't tell me?' I cried."'I liked the hummin bins better, too,' she said." ..."RB's right, Ferris Boyd. You are a hummin bin." Her eyeballs were wet, like they were swimming.It was quiet, then, till RB's soft cloud voice said, "You're a hummin bin, too, Delly.
Katherine Hannigan
As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.
David S.E. Zapanta
One’s skill is never complete, one’s knowledge is forever lacking, one’s taste is invariably altered, one’s opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improvement.
Andrew Loomis
The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly!
Bob Bello
People who have NO ambition to make a difference in this life should not interrupt the people who DO.
Tanya Masse
I believe that if children fall in love with wildlife they will grow up wanting to protect it.
Imogen Taylor
The beginning of my depression had been nothing but feelings, so the emotional deadening that followed was a welcome relief. I had always viewed feelings as a weakness-annoying obstacles on my quest for total power over myself. And I finally didn't have to feel them anymore.
Allie Brosh
Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes.
Mervyn Peake
Like lightning she snatched her axe, and struck him on the neck - deep - once - twice - his life-blood gushed out, staining her feet.The stars touched midnight.
Clemence Housman
All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like balloons. Long twirling ribbons of light, red, green, violet, were festooned about the doorways of drugstores and restaurants--and the famous electric signs of Broadway had come to life with glittering fish, dancing figures, and leaping fountains, all flashing like fire. Everything was beautiful. Up in the deepening sky above the city the first stars appeared white and rare as diamonds.
Elizabeth Enright
We are the things we don't remember,the blank spaces, the forgotten words.
Cecilia Ruiz
Never expect appreciation for your hardwork. Make sure you are doing the right thing and just continue..
Janaki Sooriyarachchi
Demon or not, it didn't matter, suffering was everywhere he looked.
Brom
My name," the boy said importantly, "is Stacey de Lacey." "But that's a girl's name!" blurted Oliver. Stacey de Lacey's face turned a dark shade of red. "Silence!" he shouted. "Stacey is one of those names that can be for a boy or a girl! Like Hilary, or Leslie, or...um... Anyway...!
Philip Reeve