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The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized...

It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.

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As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.

The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of...

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.

I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

My stories are often a little mysterious.

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.

I think it's difficult to forget things that are unresolved.

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