- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
- Nov 07, 2020
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The general effect of viewing 'Jumanji' is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had only existed in my imagination. I got to see the images from my book come alive.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It is not a very violent storm, but what's happening is I am just thinking about different ideas and maybe things I've seen that day that I think might make a good story.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.
- Illustrator
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.
- Observant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.
- Definitely
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's definitely a value in being literate.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stories are often a little mysterious.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of a tiny window between the back stoop and the pantry, where the milkman would pass through the cheese. But of course, there is no milkman anymore. So somebody coming by the house and seeing the window would say, 'Oh, that must be original, because that's where the milkman passed the cheese through to the pantry.'
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the gizmos that transport people.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When somebody says, 'This must be a children's book,' basically they're saying, 'You must be a child.' And so my answer is, 'Well, yes, I guess I am a child.' But I don't think of myself that way.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sensitive to the things I see.
- Eager
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying.
- Component
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020