Latest Lynne Rae Perkins Quotes from Interviews

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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 Perkins

  People, Hearing, Parks

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• I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out to be the kind of picture-book writer who has stuffed animals that go with their books. That would be okay with me.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Book, Animal, Thinking

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• I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Thinking

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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 Perkins

  Kids, Thinking, Doe

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• By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Book, Robins, All Alone

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• I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Book, Kids, Editors

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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 Perkins

  Feels

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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 Perkins

  Talking, Two, People

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• I'm German, after all.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

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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.

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  Morning, Jumping, Yesterday

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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 Perkins

  Trying, Shapes, Bedroom

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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 Perkins

  Drinking, Coffee, Different

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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 Perkins

  Thinking, Play, Shapes

  Source: www.hbook.com

• 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 Perkins

  Notebook, Coffee, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

• 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 Perkins

  Husband, Coffee, Way

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• I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Art, Infinity, Students

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• Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Thinking, Example, Different

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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 Perkins

  Thinking, Firsts, Easy

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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 Perkins

  Discovery, Trying, Way

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• I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Tired, Careers, Painter

  Source: www.hbook.com

• I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Mean, Drawing, Trying

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• If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Girl, Careers, Drawing

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• I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Girl, Book, Drawing

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• I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Writing, Mind, Figuring Things

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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 Perkins

  Ideas, Want, Know How

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