Joe Wharton
“I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in. So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.” Neil Gaiman
“The audience is always looking for symbols. You can have a beautiful illustration, but if it doesn't have the symbols that simply communicate what you need to communicate, then they’ll get lost.” Jon Klassen
“That was about 6 years ago and I took some time off, came up with a few ideas and just tried my luck by visiting the Bologna book fair and showing my ideas to publishers.� Chris Haughton
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