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“I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.”

Chris Van Allsburg

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My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

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Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

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I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

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“The bell still rings for all who truly believe”

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I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

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Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

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