"Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road to where he wants to go, I could only warn him to look to his zest, see to his... Continue Reading →
Quote of the day: Hans Arp
"When a new mode of imagining erupts into literature, it dislocates the rhetoric of its time, and is of subtler stuff than that rhetoric—'the infinite arrives barefoot on this earth." --Hans Arp
Quote of the Day: Stephen J. Dubner
"A book is like a child who never naps, never goes to camp, always needs care and feeding, and whose presence gnaws on you if you dare neglect it."From a NYT column on why some people hate meetings.
Quote of the Day: David McKee
"Picture books should be shared books, which can be looked at again and again by parents and child. I like to think that I'm writing for the adult that the child will be, and the child that the adult still is."(Read an interview with the author of Elmer here.)
Quote of the Day: Ann Whitford Paul
"My adult students always want to know first of all how to get an agent and I tell them that their first question should be: How do I write a fantastic, one-of-a-kind picture book?"Read more of an insightful interview at Teaching Authors.