Dick Bruna

I have been drawing all my life.

— Dick Bruna

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

— Dick Bruna

Each book first begins with a little idea.

— Dick Bruna

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

— Dick Bruna

However, my father was a publisher and it was expected that I would become a publisher as well - in his firm.

— Dick Bruna

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

— Dick Bruna

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

— Dick Bruna

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

— Dick Bruna

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

— Dick Bruna

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

— Dick Bruna

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

— Dick Bruna

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together,…

— Dick Bruna

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had…

— Dick Bruna

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father…

— Dick Bruna

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

— Dick Bruna

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

— Dick Bruna

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

— Dick Bruna