The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write. . . Once I realized … - Chris Van Allsburg

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Some people don't have a way of that catharsis and I do, so I'm lucky in that sense that people listen to my songs and enjoy my songs. It's a really important thing for me, it's how I channel everything. I don't really know what I'd do if I didn't write songs.

Chris Van Allsburg

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write. . . Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.

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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 could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.

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

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

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

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Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book. . . to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it.

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