I Refuse To Cater To The Bullshit

I Never Spent Less Than Two Years On The Text Of One Of My Picture Books, Even Though Each Of Them Is Approximately 380 Words Long. Only When The Text Is Finished ... Do I Begin The Pictures.

How Do You Write For Children? I Really Have Never Figured That Out. So I Decided To Just Ignore It

Herman Melville Said That Artists Have To Take A Dive And Either You Hit Your Head On A Rock And You Split Your Skull And You Die … Or That Blow To The Head Is So Inspiring That You Come Back And Do The Best Work That You Ever Did. But You Have To Take The Dive And You Do Not Know What The Results Will Be.

You Don't Want To Do Something That's All Terrifying.

And [he] Sailed Back Over A Year And In And Out Of Weeks And Through A Day And Into The Night Of His Very Own Room Where He Found His Supper Waiting For Him And It Was Still Hot