Shaun Tan

When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.

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These are some quotes by Australian author Shaun Tan Artist, who was born in 1974.

Quotes by Shaun Tan

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

Shaun Tan

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Seeing your work in print is exciting, especially when you're young. It's that feeling that you have some effect on the world outside of your immediate neighbourhood.

Shaun Tan

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I like the idea of contained emotion because I grew up most of my life feeling that way. As an adolescent, people would always say I was not expressive, and they always made the mistake of thinking that I didn't feel anything because I didn't react to things.

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