The 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 AllsburgIf you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson
Chris Van Allsburg