Bill Peet Quotes & Sayings

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me. — Bill Peet

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching. — Bill Peet

I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm working on a book I'm somewhere else - at the circus - or a rustic old farm - or deep in a forest - with no thought of who might read the book or what age group it would appeal to. I write them so I can illustrate them. — Bill Peet

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling. — Bill Peet

Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows. — Bill Peet