Chris Van Allsburg Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Writing, Eight, Years

• 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

• At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Writing, Asking Questions, Illustration

• I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  "All-star authors add stories to illustrator's vision". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. November 11, 2011.

• 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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