It's really daunting when you have just spent a lot of time on something to think about tossing it out. But once… — Lynne Rae Perkins Easy Copy Share Image
I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do. — Lynne Rae Perkins Feels Copy Share Image
I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it. — Lynne Rae Perkins Figuring things Copy Share Image
I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off… — Lynne Rae Perkins Book Copy Share Image
I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and… — Lynne Rae Perkins Ashamed Copy Share Image
A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to… — Lynne Rae Perkins Book Copy Share Image
“Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smile, and dark, merry… — Lynne Rae Perkins Beauty Copy Share Image
In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them… — Lynne Rae Perkins Bedroom Copy Share Image
I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had… — Lynne Rae Perkins Age Copy Share Image
I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something… — Lynne Rae Perkins Fall Copy Share Image
I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey.… — Lynne Rae Perkins Bubbles Copy Share Image
It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could… — Lynne Rae Perkins Different Copy Share Image
“They looked for one another when nothing else was happening, the way you pick up a magazine or look in the cupboard… — Lynne Rae Perkins New things Copy Share Image
“Their secrets inadvertently sidestepped each other, unaware, like blindfolded elephants crossing the tiny room.” — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on… — Lynne Rae Perkins Distance Copy Share Image
“Many girls at school were infatuated with his shallow athletic splendor and his golden handsome features that were biologically inherited and had… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!" — Lynne Rae Perkins All alone Copy Share Image
I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting… — Lynne Rae Perkins Book Copy Share Image
I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts. — Lynne Rae Perkins Art Copy Share Image
I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there. — Lynne Rae Perkins Ideas Copy Share Image
“Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there… — Lynne Rae Perkins Grass is greener Copy Share Image
I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a… — Lynne Rae Perkins Discovery Copy Share Image
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