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"I couldn’t be in a play because plays are not real life and they are full of people doing things that don’t make sense."
"Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them."
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Being a detective is like being a scientist. You have to notice things other people don’t notice.
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
"The best stories are those that resonate with our own experiences, yet take us somewhere new."
The best stories leave room for the child’s own imagination to grow.
The best stories don’t talk down to children—they invite them in.
Every child deserves to see themselves in the stories they read.
"The most powerful stories are often the simplest."
"I never set out to create a classic. I just wanted to tell a story."
"I like to draw ordinary people doing ordinary things."
"The simplest stories often have the deepest meanings."
Sometimes the simplest ideas make the best stories.
The most magical things often happen in the corners of our vision.
Every object has a shadow story waiting to be told.