Top 17 Quotes by Marissa Moss

About Marissa Moss

These are some quotes by American author Marissa Moss Author, who was born on September 29, 1959.

I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.

I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.

Marissa Moss

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

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

Marissa Moss

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

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

Marissa Moss

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

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

Marissa Moss

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

Marissa Moss

New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.

Marissa Moss

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.

Marissa Moss

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