I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.
Chris Van Allsburg
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.
Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.
I'm not surprised that my books appeal to adults.
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.
What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.
I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they... →
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black... →
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked... →
Alejandro Amenabar
I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.
Jonathan Ames