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In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst. -- Peter Greenaway
I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children. -- Hugh Lofting
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. -- Jackson Pollock
I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it. -- Jean Craighead George
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. -- John Howe
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does. -- Brian Selznick
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create. -- Patricia Cornwell
In any given month, a large number of workers are being hired or are leaving their current jobs, illustrating the dynamism of the U.S. labor market. -- Ben Bernanke
I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story. -- Brian Selznick
I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is. -- Julian Schnabel
There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue. -- Paul Conrad
I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing offered me the chance to be far more creative. -- Graeme Base
When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me. -- Jeff Lemire
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it. -- Gloria Stuart
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine. -- John Scott
I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was always interested in writing or illustrating children's books, and I started collecting out-of-print books when I was about 10 years old. -- Michael Patrick Hearn
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view. -- Josiah Royce
My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success. -- Bob Beamon
The requirements for illustrating an eight-page story are as different from that of an ensemble-cast mini-series as they are different from a solo ongoing. Whether or not they're named Captain America or Ruby Thursday matters less to me than whether or not their characterization is consistent and actions logical... storytelling concerns. -- Stuart Immonen
There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things. -- Harvey Pekar
Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few. -- Malorie Blackman
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process. -- Gail Carson Levine
Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing? -- Orhan Pamuk
Commentating, illustrating, description-giving Adjective expert. Analyzing, surmising, Musical, myth-seeking people of the universe... This is yours! -- T La Rock
It's pretty damning. That's Hillary Clinton juxtaposed against the FBI Director Comey yesterday, clearly illustrating she lied. -- Rush Limbaugh
There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like. -- Joshua Oppenheimer
In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts. -- Ernst Mayr
Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it. -- Eric Drooker
Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories. -- Billy Graham
This WikiLeaks document dump is showing - it's demonstrating, it is illustrating - that there is no boundary between the media and the Democrat Party, that it's one and the same. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
This WikiLeaks document dump is showing - it's demonstrating, it is illustrating - that there is no boundary between the media and the Democrat Party, that it's one and the same. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity. -- Alfred North Whitehead

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