Oliver Jeffers Quotes

There's a thin line between destruction and creation.

I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.

Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence

If you care too much about what others think then you ultimately become what you think they want you to be.

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.