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Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
«The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.»
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
«I don't make plans. All my life, one artistic impulse has simply led me to another.»
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
«I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.»
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
«As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.»
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
«A fantasy of mine is to be tempted by the devil with a miraculous machine, a machine that could be hooked up to my brain and instantly produce finished art from the images in my mind. I'm sure it's the devil who'd have such a device, because it would devour the artistic soul, or half of it anyway.»
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
«Lucky are the children who know there is a jolly fat man in a red suit who pilots a flying sleigh. We should envy them. And we should envy the people who are so certain Martians will land in their back yard that they keep a loaded Polaroid camera by the back door.»
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
«The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.»
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
«Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.»
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
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Author: Chris Van Allsburg
«Any system named Dewey was all right with us. We looked forward to hearing about the Huey and Louie decimal systems too.»
Author: Chris Van Allsburg