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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is something that you want to draw, to make, then I think you should pursue it and not let anybody tell you that you can't do it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved the wild rumpus in 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, because the words disappear, the pictures take up the whole page, and we move forward in the story by turning the pages.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
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- Nov 07, 2020