Words matter. These are the best Tony DiTerlizzi Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.
There are many challenges I face while working on a book. Working within deadlines and schedules is certainly one of the bigger ones for me. I want to create the best possible book I can for my readers with words and pictures – and that takes time to get it just right.
I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.
I obsess over things… especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming.
I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new.
I want my stories to be understood and enjoyed by anyone, so I need ‘beta-readers’ who will tell me when the plot is working or not working, and when my writing is concise or vague.
Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author’s imagination.
In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl.
When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.
Now, as Global Ambassador for Starlight Children’s Foundation, which brightens the lives of poorly children, I visit hospitals and tell stories to the young patients. Sometimes I read. Sometimes I draw.
The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come.
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t inspired by ‘Star Wars.’
Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.
My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.
I was a tremendous fan of the original Kenneth Grahame short story, ‘The Reluctant Dragon.’
If you like my renditions of faerie-folk, then you will most certainly like Brian Froud’s work.
I think I’ve got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.
My fifth grade teacher Mr. Straussberger noticed I was having trouble with some of my book reports, but he knew I loved to draw. He gave me extra credit if I did a drawing from the book that I was reading.
I’ve always been a chameleon from book to book, like a director who does different films in the best possible way.
I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.
When you hear the words ‘magic’ and ‘story’, they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.
I think, in real life, when we’re facing death – that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it’s death of a friend or a family member – you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.
When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.
Usually, an author writes a manuscript that is handed in to the editor. The editor will then work with an art director to find just the right illustrator for the job, and off they go. Many times, the illustrator and author never meet.
I never want to dumb it down. If there’s any simplification, it’s just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.
