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"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."
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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"
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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."
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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."
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"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!"
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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."
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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."
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"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."
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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
"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
Family
"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
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