Lynne Rae Perkins Quotes - Page 2

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.

One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen.

I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the flickering leaves around them, and they're walking, but you're also hearing their words. It's an interaction between where they are and what they're saying that's both visual and verbal.

I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.

I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people.

I'm German, after all.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

It's one of my favorite times of day. I'll have an array of notes, things that I want to think about. Something will start to take shape, and I'll play around with it. It's not usually an intense time. It's sort of a playful time. But it's when some really good thoughts arise.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.