"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

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"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

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"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."

Beginning

"Each book first begins with a little idea."

Creativity

"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

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

Nothing

"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

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

Work

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

Time

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

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"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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"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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