Sally Lloyd-Jones quotes

When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong-close to his heart. (Sally Lloyd-Jones)
When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round. View quote
Sally Lloyd-Jones
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book. View quote
Sally Lloyd-Jones
There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them. View quote
Sally Lloyd-Jones
So that when you come to read the actual Bible you have a lay of the land. And you come to the Bible knowing that it's not mostly a book about you and what you're supposed to be doing. It's most of all a story. It's this wonderful love story - about a God who loves his children with a wonderful, never-stopping-never-giving-up-unbreaking-always-and-forever love. View quote
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If you write for children with respect and treat them with dignity - you'll capture the adults as well. Children deserve nothing but our very best. Nothing but excellence will do for the young, because the responsibility is greater. We write up for children, never down. View quote
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In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa. View quote
Sally Lloyd-Jones