"I guess I see a part of myself……" — Brian Selznick
"I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed with something, and even though I have never been good with machines the way Hugo is, I did love miniature things when I was a kid."
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31 Quotes by Brian Selznick
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