The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what t…

- Chris Van Allsburg

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

- Chris Van Allsburg

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

- Chris Van Allsburg

I take my ideas from my experiences.

- Chris Van Allsburg

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

- Chris Van Allsburg

I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

- Chris Van Allsburg

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

- Chris Van Allsburg

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.

- Chris Van Allsburg

At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she cou…

- Chris Van Allsburg