American - Artist | September 6, 1969 -
I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance.
Tony DiTerlizzi
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The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.
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I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it.
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I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.
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With the success of 'Spiderwick,' it's allowed me to be able to have the freedom to really be able to tell the stories that I really wanted to tell, that I've always wanted to tell.
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I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.
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The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come.
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My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.
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I want my stories to be understood and enjoyed by anyone, so I need 'beta-readers' who will tell me when the plot is working or not working, and when my writing is concise or vague.
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When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.
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In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl.
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I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.
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