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"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
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"I want to be all used up when I die."
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Personal Development
"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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Personal Development
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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Personal Development
"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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Personal Development
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door."
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Personal Development
"I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it."
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Personal Development
"When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads."
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"I just want to keep doing what I feel."
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"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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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."
Creativity
"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
Want
"I have been drawing all my life."
Life
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
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
"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."
Parenting
"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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