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"Each book first begins with a little idea."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."
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"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."
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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining."
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"The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality."
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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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"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
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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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"Each book first begins with a little idea."
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"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
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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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"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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"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
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"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
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"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
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