Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

American - Author Born: June 18, 1949

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 to say, is exciting and rewarding.

Chris Van Allsburg

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

Chris Van Allsburg

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Chris Van Allsburg

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

Chris Van Allsburg

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Chris Van Allsburg

The general effect of viewing 'Jumanji' is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had only existed in my imagination. I got to see the images from my book come alive.

Chris Van Allsburg

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

Chris Van Allsburg

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

Chris Van Allsburg