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" I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience. "

Noelle Stevenson

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" Not long after I started posting the first 'Nimona' pages online, a literary agent reached out to me, and I ended up signing with him before I returned to school for my senior year. "

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" Just make the comics you want to see, and people will notice. "

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" I was going to be a storybook illustrator or an editorial illustrator. I ended up in a comics class by mistake because all the others were full, so I was like 'I'll stay for one class, and then I'll go take something else, because I don't care about comics.' I got pulled in really fast; I discovered I had a voice in comics that I didn't know I had. "

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