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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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"All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey."
"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
"Many of the things that grownups have chosen to ignore, the child understands deeply."
"When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people's happiness."
"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."
"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."
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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."
"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."
"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
"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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