18 Quotes by Marissa Moss

It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.

Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story.

I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'

My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.

Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.

With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.