Brian Selznick Quotes

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• Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.
• Maybe we're all cabinets of wonders.
• I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.
• I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen.…
• I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any…
• If you lose your purpose ... it's like you're broken.
• I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and…
• Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.
• Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars…
• I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.
• If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.
• My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.
• In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.
• As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top…
• Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.
• Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
• Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's…
• Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.
• He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished…

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