Lynne Rae Perkins Quotes
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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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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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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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I'm German, after all.
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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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Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.
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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.
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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.
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I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.
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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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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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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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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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I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.
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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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I do like to be surprised.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think we're conditioned by watching movies.
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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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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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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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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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I don't like things to be static when I'm working.
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In some ways I'm very structured.
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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.
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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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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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By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"
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