Bill Peet quotes

I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm working on a book I'm somewhere else - at the circus - or a rustic old farm - or deep in a forest - with no thought of who might read the book or what age group it would appeal to. I write them so I can illustrate them.
-- Bill Peet

#Children #Book #Writing

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.
-- Bill Peet

#Book #Ideas #Doodling

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
-- Bill Peet

#Animal #Personality #Desire

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.
-- Bill Peet

#Writing #Yellow #Sketching

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.