“One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was able to be humorous and then very serious. And the impeachment page is certainly the best example of that. I didn't have to think too much about how to present this one. I got the idea right away that a good way of showing the shame of President Nixon would be to put him down in the shadows under the Lincoln Monument, with Lincoln sort of glaring down at him from an elevated, better-lit position.” ThinkingBookPresidentSeriousGloryHumorousShadowShameMonumentPresident Nixon Author:David Small
“If, for some reason, I cannot bear to work on something that needs to get done, I'm not going to force that. I'll just take a mental vacation. I think the best solution sometimes to working out a problem is to walk squarely away from it.” ThinkingSometimesReasonDoneProblemSolutionsWork OutVacation Author:David Small
“I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or another. So I think there's a lot of kids who relate to my story. They also relate to the fact that I got out of it. And I tell them that my refuge from all that was books - the library was my safe place. And the art room was my safe place because there I knew what I was doing.” ThinkingArtBookReasonKidsToughLibraryRefugeUnfair Author:David Small
“Teenagers are always sneaking around in drawers where they shouldn't go and reading things they shouldn't be reading. And that's an attempt to try, I think, to penetrate, that's how I found out as a teenager what was going on, was by sneaking into drawers and reading letters that I had no business reading.” ThinkingTryingReadingTeenager Author:David Small
“I'm a reader. I like - I'm a great reader. I keep going back, though, to certain authors, just like I love film, but I keep going back to just five or six certain filmmakers. In literature I like Chekhov, for example; I think he's my favorite. And Flaubert - you know, that kind of concision. But I also like Tolstoy; I love those romances that, you know, weigh 500 pounds and take months and months and months to read.” ThinkingKindFilmRomanceLiteratureMy FavoriteFilmmakerKeep GoingLove Films Author:David Small
“Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.” ThinkingKind Author:David Small
“I think drawing is really the basis of all art, even sculpture, film. The greatest filmmakers have always been able to at least roughly sketch out their ideas in storyboards. And black and white in particular is a good place to start.” ThinkingArtFilmBlackFilmmakerBlack And White Author:David Small
“Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.” ThinkingChildrenBookKidsEducator Author:David Small
