Quotes by Illustrators - Page 7

Keep trying, especially at first. It can be very discouraging if your submissions keep being rejected by a publisher, but if your work is what people want to read, you should get there eventually!
Robin Jarvis
A beautiful face will age and a perfect body will change, but an awesome person will always be an awesome person.
Tanya Masse
When the power of LOVE is more important than the love of money, religion and power, and people realize that the most important things in this life are NOT things,the world will finally know peace.
Tanya Masse
It all began with a bucket of eggs.
H.L. Stephens
The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old.
Natalie Babbitt
It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.
E.L. Konigsburg
I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. (In conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, September 27, 1993)
Maurice Sendak
Woodget glanced into the dim shadows behind the trees. "What you be hiding fer?" he called."On such a night as this even the greatest may hide and not be ashamed," came the response.
Robin Jarvis
I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.
Mo Willems
Sometimes I think as adults we think of them as — because they're small in size that they're small in all ways — and they're not. They have big feelings, and they have big eyes, they see things, they hear things, they're living life just the way an adult does and I think sometimes as adults we forget that.
Kevin Henkes
What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.
John Sloan
I think anything like that-which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone-people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone?
Andrew Wyeth
You see, the longer you put a problem off, the worse it becomes
Mark Teague
Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is one big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.
Brian Selznick
Polly Esther Doe was born at 8:03 a.m. on August 14.
Adam Rex
But the people only talked about how ugly her face looked. No one even bothered to mention what a sweet, kindhearted girl she was. Now, don’t be amazed! That is just the nature of humans, to notice the one flaw among a person’s ten good qualities.
Janaki Sooriyarachchi
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.
Mark Haddon
Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!
Ian Falconer
Here all may see my body lie/ But not my soul, for that can fly!
Helme Heine
There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that flow quietly and effortlessly until time forsakes them, but there are others that fight until they find their way to the edge of reality, as if coming straight out of a dream.
Edwin Fontanez
We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the agápe in their heart. Your value in the cosmos is greater than precious metals or jewels, humans have to potential to take us all into a period of great enlightenment, or to our ruin. The choice is yours.
Guy T. Simpson Jr.
I want to look at you as you kill me.
Curtis Jobling
[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and frustration - all the emotions that are an ordinary part of their lives and that they can perceive only as as ungovernable and dangerous forces. To master these forces, children turn to fantasy: that imagined world where disturbing emotional situations are solved to their satisfaction.
Maurice Sendak
What must I do now?” Mrs. Muller considered her silently for a while. “You are still a child. You must go where you are told and do as you are told. But it won’t always be so. Soon you will be in charge of yourself. Until that time: Be aware. Listen. Look. Touch. Smell. And remember. But for now, you must go home.
Masha du Toit
If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed.
Patrick H.T. Doyle
In the world we live in, priests and bartenders have a lot in common.
Flavia Biondi
I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.
Chris Van Allsburg
I love you"s are exhanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.
Tanya Masse
The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.
Teresa Flavin
The happiest people are the ones who can build a firm foundation of awesomeness out of the stones people have thrown at them.
Tanya Masse
When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.
Cornelia Funke
In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch".
Tomie dePaola
If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you special, too!
Jeff Hutchins
One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follow. They’re part of the same journey — our story.
Lori R. Lopez
Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, like a protractor or a biscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't have a map it will still be there because a map is a representation of things that actually exist so you can find the protractor or the biscuits again. And a timetable is a map of time, except that if you don't have a timetable, time isn't there like the landing and the garden and the route to school.
Mark Haddon
The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.
Teresa Flavin
Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!
Maurice Sendak
Bombs Away!" he yelled, swooping low over StregaSchloss. He saw little figures on the ground fleeing from the large green projectile that was speeding their way. "And a direct hit, if I'm not mistaken," he observed to himself. With a tremendous slapping sound, Ffup's digestive overload landed on a human target. There was a scream, a ghastly choking sound, and then silence.
Debi Gliori
Please do not blame the story.The story cannot help itself. We do not realize it at the time, but sometimes the story we are all a part of is not just a story about Vikings and islands and dragons. It is a story about growing up.And one of the things about growing up, one of the inescapable, inevitable laws, is that one day...One day... one day... It is going to happen. I am sorry, but it's true.
Cressida Cowell
It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.
Sally Gardner
Small said, "But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?"…Large (replied) "Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies, for you see…love like starlight never dies…
Debi Gliori
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
Mark Haddon
I had a cat I could not see,Because it stayed in back of me.It was a very loyal pet-It's sad we never really met.I had a nice petWho I never met,Remember it always stayed behind me. And I'm sure it was a cat, too.
Peggy Rathmann
Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.
Adam Hargreaves
Historians are great gossips at a high level.
Marian Schlesinger
Stories You Can Feel!
Corey Aaron Burkes
Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.
Ellen Raskin
If there ever comes a time that you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.
Tanya Masse
When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?
Martine Murray
While the differences between love and hate can be blurred and difficult to decipher at times, the dichotomy of denial and acceptance are much more distinct. One is halting and aggressively rejects all truth, while the other is more passive and at peace – welcoming whatever truth is in waiting, whether fortunate or tragic.
Kenn Bivins
There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too.
Katherine Hannigan
Every great work every big accomplishment has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.
Flavia Weedn
Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage.
Armstrong Sperry
Self is that which dies...Spirit is that which lives...forever.
Joan Walsh Anglund
I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.
Katherine Hannigan
It’s called the Pyxis,” said Raven. “Don’t let the fancy name intimidate you. It just means ‘box’ in one of those Old Earth languages, Roman or Spanish or Klingon…
Philip Reeve
Meow!" said the chicken.
Roger Hargreaves
He began to develop an obstinate patience.
William Steig