Van Allsburg Books Quotes

#1. Oh, death in space was most humorous.

Ray Bradbury

#2. Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

Chris Van Allsburg

#3. Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."
from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers

Chris Van Allsburg

#4. Drink more water and walk in a relaxed manner.

Joyce Rupp

#5. It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.

Chris Van Allsburg

#6. Yes, you're trying to make it to the end, but not by beating someone else.

Kiera Cass

#7. I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away.

Chris Van Allsburg

#8. With their ever-available loving hearts, they bow before God and bend down under all this pain and are lower than all the other creatures on earth. Pride is rare among them.3 Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#9. Word For The Day KERFUFFLE (kuhr FUF uhl) n. Disorder; uproar; confusion

Deb Baker

#10. I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

John Adams

#11. It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.

Chris Van Allsburg

#12. I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

Chris Van Allsburg

#13. And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.

Matt LeBlanc

#14. I'm not surprised that my books appeal to adults.

Chris Van Allsburg

#15. I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

Chris Van Allsburg

#16. What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.

Chris Van Allsburg

#17. If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.

Phil Everly

#18. I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.

Chris Van Allsburg