“A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.”

If your best friend’s feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She’ll feel as good as.

I think of writing–particularly of writing picture books–as a kind of choreography.

Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues.

Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye

And here I am hoping to travel to a parallel universe where we finally got this right.

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.

You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I’m not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can’t come back.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.