“Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.”
“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
“For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.”
“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
“If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING!(according to all book covers they're fantastic and gripping)”