Chris Van Allsburg Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• An award does not change the quality of a book.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Change, Book, Awards

  Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.

• The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Book, Writing, Effort

• Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Children, Book, Tv Shows

• I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Art, Book, Writing

  "Chris Van Allsburg on Picture Book Writing". Interview with Maryann Yin, www.adweek.com. October 28, 2011.

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