"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"

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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

"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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"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."

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"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."

"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."

"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

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"Each book first begins with a little idea."

"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"

"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."

"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."

"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."

"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."

"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."