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Dick Bruna

"Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published."

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"Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published."

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

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"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

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"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

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"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

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"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

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"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

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"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

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"Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference."

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"Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity."

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"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
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"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
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"Each book first begins with a little idea."
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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."
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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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"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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"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
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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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"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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