Margaret Wise Brown Quotes

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

Wherever there are words, let there be pictures.

So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I'm quite content.

Everybody draws when they are little.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.

I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to another place which you've never been. And you feel like you're just enveloped by the book and the characters.

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.