I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not. — Lynne Rae Perkins Sound Copy Share Image
“But at least I have my health," he said. It was a joke.” — Lynne Rae Perkins Health Copy Share Image
I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it. — Lynne Rae Perkins Artist 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
One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened… — Lynne Rae Perkins Book 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
I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well. — Lynne Rae Perkins Artist 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 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 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 generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there. — Lynne Rae Perkins Direction Copy Share Image
I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along… — Lynne Rae Perkins Artist Copy Share Image
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 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
I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent… — 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 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
There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the… — Lynne Rae Perkins Film Copy Share Image
Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
“Debbie wondered if it was true that there was only one person in the world for every person, and if she had… — Lynne Rae Perkins Love 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 in love 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 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
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'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 Copy Share Image
Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is. — Lynne Rae Perkins Chemistry 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 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 Copy Share Image
With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for. — Lynne Rae Perkins Book 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
“Their secrets inadvertently sidestepped each other, unaware, like blindfolded elephants crossing the tiny room.” — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when… — 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 Animal Copy Share Image
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