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Each book first begins with a little idea.
- Dick Bruna
#Begins
#Book
#First
#Idea
#Little
Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.
- Dick Bruna
#Although
#Early
#Lot
#Never
#Time
Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.
- Dick Bruna
#About
#Beach
#House
#Sleep
#Story
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.
- Dick Bruna
#Book
#Children
#Day
#Doing
#Together
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
- Dick Bruna
#Amazing
#Make
#Try
#Up
#Work
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.
- Dick Bruna
#Back
#Chance
#Father
#Me
#Time
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
- Dick Bruna
#Although
#Commercial
#Me
#Nothing
#Side
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
- Dick Bruna
#Become
#Nice
#Thought
#Van Gogh
#Would
I have been drawing all my life.
- Dick Bruna
#All My Life
#Drawing
#Life
#My Life
I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.
- Dick Bruna
#About
#Always
#Bond
#Matter
#Must
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.
- Dick Bruna
#Beginning
#Boy
#Girl
#Know
#Right
My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!
- Dick Bruna
#Become
#End
#Father
#Me
#Would
But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.
- Dick Bruna
#Children
#Down
#Meant
#Sit
#Think
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
- Dick Bruna
#Book
#Jokes
#Make
#Parent
#Parents
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
- Dick Bruna
#Artist
#Business
#Come
#Family
#People
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