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 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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• One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen.

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  Book, Fall, Ideas

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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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• 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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• 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 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 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.

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  Fun, Book, Writing

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• I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Book, Fall, Thinking

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• I'm structured with time.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

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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.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Writing, Ideas, Drawing

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

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  Static

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• I do like to be surprised.

  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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• I'm German, after all.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

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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.

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  Talking, Two, People

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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 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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