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Dick Bruna

"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."

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"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."

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"Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book."

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"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
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"Each book first begins with a little idea."
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"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
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"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."
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"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."
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"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
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"Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published."
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"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
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"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
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"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
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