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

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: About Events House Life Routine Unexpected Your

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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 Allsburg

Topics: Believe Evening Fairy Happen Like Meet Much Really Tooth Walk

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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 Allsburg

Topics: Between Cardboard Create Exciting Exists Opportunity People Pieces Rewarding Say Small Stands Still Talk Tell Them Time Two Where World

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There's definitely a value in being literate.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Being Definitely Literate Value

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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 Allsburg

Topics: Alone Asked Began Boy Does Express Gets Go He Idea Myself Polar Standing Standing Alone Train What If Where Woods

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People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Asked Because Come Describe First Hard Images Lot Me Often People Picture Pictures Same Same Time Seeing Seem Story Thinking Time While

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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 Allsburg

Topics: Amusement Book Decided Five Four Kind Mostly My Own Own Picture Picture Book Point Turning Turning Point Years

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My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Dreams Ideas Meant Quality Reality Suggest Surreal

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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 Allsburg

Topics: Any Change Far Following Formula Muse Now Out Pretty Reason See Well Worked

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

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Around Head Inside Left Rattling Still Write I Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 18th, 1949

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