My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come away with a stronger impression of the basic message in the story I am illustrating.

My advice to writers is: READ! A lot. Then read some more. read, read, read, read!

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about your books than you do!

My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully get it, but it is basically erasing shapes from a background of paint.

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.

I like people. Humanity. My family is a part of my work. They contribute throughout the process with critiques, advice, opinions, etc.

I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

You don't need to put on make-up to make you look pretty. All you need to do is put on a smile and that will make you pretty in anyone's book.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

The Fair Folk don't give back what they take.

I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

Jesus has paid for my healing. Disease has no right to be in my body. I am healed in Jesus’ name!

People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth does not care.

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist.