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

—Chris Van

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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 aren’t very scary.

—Chris Van

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Santa is our culture’s only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It’s a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that’s a pity.

—Chris Van

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The general effect of viewing ‘Jumanji’ is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had only existed in my imagination. I got to see the images from my...

—Chris Van

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Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it’s quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

—Chris Van

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If I’m not working on something, I’m eager to work on something because it’s so gratifying.

—Chris Van

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

—Chris Van

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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.

—Chris Van

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As much as I’d like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don’t really believe it can happen.

—Chris Van

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I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.

—Chris Van

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Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

—Chris Van

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HouseUnexpected
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In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

—Chris Van

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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

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It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching – and since 1991, I’ve been a parent, so...

—Chris Van

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

—Chris Van

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

—Chris Van

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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...

—Chris Van

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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.

—Chris Van

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

—Chris Van

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BooksSeem
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When somebody says, ‘This must be a children’s book,’ basically they’re saying, ‘You must be a child.’ And so my answer is, ‘Well, yes, I guess I am a child.’ But I don’t think of...

—Chris Van

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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.

—Chris Van

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Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

—Chris Van

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There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of...

—Chris Van

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It’s not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.

—Chris Van

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ArtistInterestMarket
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I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

—Chris Van

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Book lovers love books!” her mother announced. “There’s romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement.”from Mr. Linden’s Library by Walter Dean Myers

—Chris Van

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Libraries
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I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

—Chris Van

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

—Chris Van

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BoyGrowingSupposed
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The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it’s for the best.

—Chris Van

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FeelingWays
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My stories are often a little mysterious.

—Chris Van

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I’m always a bit disappointed when I’ve finished working on a book.

—Chris Van

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‘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?’

—Chris Van

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I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I’m not sure.

—Chris Van

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The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what’s fascinating to me.

—Chris Van

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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.

—Chris Van

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BookChildThemselves
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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

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I love the idea of a tiny window between the back stoop and the pantry, where the milkman would pass through the cheese. But of course, there is no milkman anymore. So somebody coming by...

—Chris Van

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I like the gizmos that transport people.

—Chris Van

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The crudest thing I’ve done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

—Chris Van

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SingThemselves
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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.

—Chris Van

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BrainMindSpeak
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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.

—Chris Van

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BoyHeardStories
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The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed...

—Chris Van

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Happen
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I think parents generally know what’s best for their children. But I suppose it’s possible to be overprotective.

—Chris Van

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The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

—Chris Van

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SmallTalk
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There’s definitely a value in being literate.

—Chris Van

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DefinitelyLiterateValue
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At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet...

—Chris Van

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What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.

—Chris Van

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

—Chris Van

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DifficultForget
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I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called ‘The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.’

—Chris Van

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

—Chris Van

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AlthoughBecameWriter
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