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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  Falling In Love, Thinking, Kind

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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 Perkins

  Years, Age, Way

  Lynne Rae Perkins (2006). “Criss Cross”

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• In some ways I'm very structured.

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  Way

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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.

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  Girl, Book, Drawing

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

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  Girl, Careers, Drawing

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

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  Tired, Careers, Painter

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• 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.

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  Mean, Drawing, Trying

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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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• A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

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  Sibling, Book, School

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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.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Easy

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

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  Thinking, Example, Different

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

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  Art, Infinity, Students

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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.

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  Husband, Coffee, Way

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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.

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  Notebook, Coffee, Thinking

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

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  Book, Robins, All Alone

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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.

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  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.

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  Ideas, Want, Know How

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• I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not.

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  Sound, Want, Spontaneous

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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.

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  Notebook, School, Different

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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.

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  Book, Animal, Thinking

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• We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

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  Dog, Distance, Years

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• With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

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  Book, Waiting, Pops

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• Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line of the book is going to be. That was true here - the very last line of the book was the last thing that happened.

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  Book, Lines, Way

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• Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

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  Writing, Ideas, Drawing

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• I don't like things to be static when I'm working.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Static

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