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Oz Perkins Quotes: "It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also."

It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance."

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.




Oz Perkins Quotes: "With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for."

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen."

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.




Oz Perkins Quotes: "I don't like things to be static when I'm working."

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I do like to be surprised."

I do like to be surprised.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I'm structured with time."

I'm structured with time.




Oz Perkins Quotes: "I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth."

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it."

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well."

If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at."

I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it."

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.




Oz Perkins Quotes: "I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not."

I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen."

One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people."

I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak."

Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "We adults all stay sixteen or so in some corner of the soul."

We adults all stay sixteen or so in some corner of the soul.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details right."

Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details right.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "brother of the stranger" in America's future."

I hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "brother of the stranger" in America's future.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States."

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "If you have a chance to see Children Of War, you can watch expert trauma counselors try to help bring healing to young people who have experienced atrocities in conflict."

If you have a chance to see Children Of War, you can watch expert trauma counselors try to help bring healing to young people who have experienced atrocities in conflict.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano."

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I play any piano with a good tune."

I play any piano with a good tune.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I didn’t have much school. Three years."

I didn’t have much school. Three years.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I was going for the idea that a time can also be a location. You can revisit a time of year, in the same way you can go back to a house that you used to live in."

I was going for the idea that a time can also be a location. You can revisit a time of year, in the same way you can go back to a house that you used to live in.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ."

Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "There are some people in life that you can't get over."

There are some people in life that you can't get over.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else."

I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]"

I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]



Oz Perkins Quotes: "Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget."

Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much."

It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?"

Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful."

I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way."

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "Boys turns girls into such idiots."

Boys turns girls into such idiots.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?"

How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?



Oz Perkins Quotes: "My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird."

My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?"

I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?



Oz Perkins Quotes: "You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventure"

You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventure



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I don’t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It’s like we’re incapable of normal human interaction."

I don’t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It’s like we’re incapable of normal human interaction.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story."

Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I wish the world would swallow us here, whole, in this moment. And that's when it hits me that this - this - is falling in love."

I wish the world would swallow us here, whole, in this moment. And that's when it hits me that this - this - is falling in love.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart."

What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice."

What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in."

Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul."

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "I look at you, and I think about you, and ... I don't know. No one has ever confounded me the way you do."

I look at you, and I think about you, and ... I don't know. No one has ever confounded me the way you do.



Oz Perkins Quotes: "Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day"

Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day



Oz Perkins Quotes: "It's become impossible to deny he means something to me."

It's become impossible to deny he means something to me.