“Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.”
“Someday I want to write a sixteen-syllable Haiku about the death and disappearance of a monosyllabic word.”
“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.”
“The book of war, the one we've been writing since one ape slapped another, was completely useless in this situation. We had to write a new one from scratch.”
“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.”
“If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.”