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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 Allsburg

Topics: About First Garden Story Wrote

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

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Authors Books Control Films Given Made Much Over Very

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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 that cuts into the time!

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Back Been Book Case Cuts Doing Number Parent Part-Time Since Teaching Time Year Years

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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 Allsburg

Topics: About Almost Almost All Black Books Certainly Did Experiences Me Occur Picture Specifically Those

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

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Although Became Fantasies Illustrator Writer Years

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I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: American Biographies Child Memories Positive Reading Unusual Very

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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 Allsburg

Topics: About Authors Boy Dutch Filled Heard Hubris Kind Midwest Stories

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They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Corporations Hire Large Make People Sculptures Send

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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 Allsburg

Topics: Able Brain Certain Even Isolation Mind Never Speak Tasks Theory Write

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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 Allsburg

Topics: Always Draw Drawing Encouraged Interest Long Loved Much Remember Very I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 18th, 1949

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