25 Quotes by Dick Bruna

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

I work very long on each book, sometimes two or three months, because I think all the twelve illustrations have to be nice pieces of graphic art.

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.

A few years ago, I had an exhibition at a museum in Holland where, for the very first time, I saw how much Miffy had changed over the years.

Then one day I thought it would be nice to try to draw that rabbit and make a little story of it - and that's how Miffy started.

Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.