- Nov 07, 2020
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- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in elementary school, you get these amazing assignments, like to come up with your own animal, come up with your own city, come up with your own planet, what do the people look like; you're very much encouraged to be as imaginative as possible.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love having Winnie-the-Pooh stay here at the house. We could talk of food and what we were eating next. Maybe ponder that over a little morsel... and then take a little nap and dream of desserts.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you like my renditions of faerie-folk, then you will most certainly like Brian Froud's work.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fifth grade teacher Mr. Straussberger noticed I was having trouble with some of my book reports, but he knew I loved to draw. He gave me extra credit if I did a drawing from the book that I was reading.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a chameleon from book to book, like a director who does different films in the best possible way.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very proud in what we've created in the 'Spiderwick' stories. And, frankly, I am glad we are ending the series on a high-note.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a tremendous fan of the original Kenneth Grahame short story, 'The Reluctant Dragon.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, an author writes a manuscript that is handed in to the editor. The editor will then work with an art director to find just the right illustrator for the job, and off they go. Many times, the illustrator and author never meet.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many challenges I face while working on a book. Working within deadlines and schedules is certainly one of the bigger ones for me. I want to create the best possible book I can for my readers with words and pictures - and that takes time to get it just right.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to Middle Earth. 'Dungeons & Dragons' was a huge influence.
- Gruesome
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I obsess over things... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.
- Better Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the success of 'Spiderwick,' it's allowed me to be able to have the freedom to really be able to tell the stories that I really wanted to tell, that I've always wanted to tell.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I rewind back to that period, I was 8 in 1977 when 'Star Wars' was in theaters. I saved up money, or my parents got me the 'Art of Star Wars' book.
- Hold
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- Nov 07, 2020