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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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"A child is child."
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"Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me."
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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."
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"The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love."
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"Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect."
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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
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"Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us."
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"Kids don't have much accumulated and deep memories and that's why they happily live in the present time!"
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"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."
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"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
Time
"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
Thought
"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
"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
Family
"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
Business
"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
Nothing
"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
Want
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Work
"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
Childhood
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