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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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"Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!"
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"All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey."
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"In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge."
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"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."
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"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."
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"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."
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"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."
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"We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them."
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"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."
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"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."
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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."
Parenting
"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
Family
"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."
Thought
"Each book first begins with a little idea."
Creativity
"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
Childhood
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Work
"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."
Creativity
"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."
Time
"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
Thought
"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
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