You have to get through periods of being blocked. Everybody has them. For me, they have everything to do with self-doubt. It's never a matter of lazi….

I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night because it would be better to turn all that stuff into drea….

I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or another. So I think there's a lot of….

Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes….

Teenagers are always sneaking around in drawers where they shouldn't go and reading things they shouldn't be reading. And that's an attempt to try, I….

I'm a reader. I like - I'm a great reader. I keep going back, though, to certain authors, just like I love film, but I keep going back to just five o….

What I try to do in my picture books is to be all-inclusive, but not exclusive, to not exclude the kid and not exclude the parents from the experienc….

Russell Hoban created a tremendous marriage of characters and philosophy. The plots, the wind-up toy characters, the settings, they all work together….

If, for some reason, I cannot bear to work on something that needs to get done, I'm not going to force that. I'll just take a mental vacation. I thin….

The whole basis of working in black and white and grays became the basis of my understanding of color, because it's all about tone, it's all about li….

.... When you have no voice, you don't exist.

I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the curriculum. There's no ….

I think drawing is really the basis of all art, even sculpture, film. The greatest filmmakers have always been able to at least roughly sketch out th….

Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm n….

One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was able to be humorous and then very serious. And ….

I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I used to be furious with them if they didn'….

My interest really is psychology, what's going on in people's minds as revealed on their faces and in their posture. That is my strength. And it's so….

I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to plays and symphony concerts and to the museums. Theater….

I found great value in teaching students from the outset of their studies how to draw very realistically. Otherwise, you're starting deep into the al….

My friend advised me to go into studying art, which at first shocked me because art was so easy. It was just something I did, like breathing or brush….

Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only to speak plainly, even t….