Quotes by Mo Willems

Mo Willems

A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.

Book

Hands

Thinking

A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of sanctioned curriculum, plus the baggage of an approved, limited vocabulary. The trick is to design your chartered bus to be as cool and sexy as a motorcycle.

Book

Fun

Sexy

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

Ideas

Library

Life Changing

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

Artist

Craftsman

Waiting

Elephant and Piggie could just Google themselves! With the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! series, we’re picking artists who have a voice already. They have a sensibility. I don’t want to make a book about blades of grass. That doesn’t interest me. I want to make a book that Laurie Keller uses to express herself in this format. That’s the key. That’s what’s going to keep it individual.

Artist

Book

Reading

Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like books that are dialogue-driven. They like books that are about issues that they live with, in their own elephantine and porcine ways.

Aesthetic

Book

Philosophical

I also learn a lot about everybody else’s process. People create in different ways, so that has opened me up to different processes and experimenting. Laurie Keller is a character person, so she came to the project with these blades-of-grass characters that we were able to literally grow a story around.

Character

Different

People

I always say, ‘Books beat boredom,’ said Amanda wisely.

Beats

Book

Boredom

I bet your mom would let me.” -Pigeon, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

Bus

Mom

Pigeons

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Artist

Beats

Book

Boredom

Bus

Byzantium

Character

Children

Chocolate

Craftsman

Decision

Differences

Different

Enough

Feelings

Fun

Hands

Hot

Ideas

Independence

Kids

Leaving

Library

Life Changing

Lucky

Mom

My Favorite

Parent

People

Philosophical

Pigeons

Powerful

Pudding

Reading

School

Self

Sexy

Starting Over

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Thinking

Waiting

Writing

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Quotes by Mo Willems

Mo Willems

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like books that are dialogue-driven. They like books that are about issues that they live with, in their own elephantine and porcine ways.

I always say, ‘Books beat boredom,’ said Amanda wisely.

I bet your mom would let me.” -Pigeon, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

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