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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 stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
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"Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do."
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"We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait."
"The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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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."
"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
"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."
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."
"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
"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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