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" It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive. "

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" I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. "

" Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. "

" I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay? "

" What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. "

" I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be. "

" I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist. "

" 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. "

" You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. "

" I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person. "

" I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better. "

" You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. "

" As a kid, all I thought about was death. "

" I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. "

" A book is a book is a book. "

" I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could. "

" I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. "

" My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. "

" I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! "

" There's so much more to a book than just the reading. "

" The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been. "

" I'm not a religious person. "

Religious Person

" I would infinitely prefer a daughter. "

" In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. "

" I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young. "

" I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep. "

" I don't need faith. "

" Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean. "

" I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead. "

" Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously. "

" Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. "