I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed with something, and even though I have never been good with machines the way Hugo is, I did love miniature things when I was a kid.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.