Dick Bruna

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

I have been drawing all my life.

But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.