Brian Selznick Quotes

I've always loved the wild rumpus in 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, because the words disappear, the pictures take up the whole page, and we move forward in the story by turning the pages.

Brian Selznick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 14, 1966

Topics

WordsForwardStoryLovedPictures

People think I'm clever, which is hilarious. I'm like, 'When did this happen? People used to think I couldn't string a sentence together.'

Maxine Peake

TogetherPeopleThinkCleverHappen

Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't.

Michael Gove

SayingSaidNeverBallsCommitted

We want to bring life. We want to enhance life.

Rohan Marley

LifeWantBringEnhance

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

Jonathan Sacks

ComplexPhenomenon

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

Chinua Achebe

GreatDiversityProblemYouSimplify

I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.

April Gornik

PositiveWorkDreamsStylePainting

It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.

Allison Pearson

BookHollywoodFilmWellWriter

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

Paul Strand

PhotographyLivingWhoYourReally

He was my biggest crush when I was 12, and it's never really stopped. I was on BenAffleck.com a lot growing up. I don't know why.

Perfume Genius

Growing UpGrowingKnowWhyNever

Near the sun is the center of the universe.

Nicolaus Copernicus

SunUniverseCenterNear

Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.

Lisa Edelstein

LoveStrengthTimeStressMeRelax

I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

Gillian Flynn

ThinkInterestingMysteryYouKind

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