I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.
Chris Van AllsburgThe 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 AllsburgI'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 AllsburgThere was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.
Chris Van Allsburg