Lynne Rae Perkins quotes
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“I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone.”
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“I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Lynne Rae Perkins (2006). “Criss Cross”
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“In some ways I'm very structured.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“It's one of my favorite times of day. I'll have an array of notes, things that I want to think about. Something will start to take shape, and I'll play around with it. It's not usually an intense time. It's sort of a playful time. But it's when some really good thoughts arise.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I creep over to my chair and sit there with my notebook and my thermos of coffee. It's my best time for thinking, because I haven't started thinking about anything else yet, and the thoughts can kind of go in and out of my head.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the flickering leaves around them, and they're walking, but you're also hearing their words. It's an interaction between where they are and what they're saying that's both visual and verbal.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I think we're conditioned by watching movies.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I'm German, after all.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“It's really daunting when you have just spent a lot of time on something to think about tossing it out. But once you've started something better that's working right, then it's pretty easy to let the first one go.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.”
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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