Quotes by Mini Grey - Page 1

I love food, and I love drawing it, particularly.
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Drawing
Love Food I Love
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I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.
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Control Freak
Freak
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I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.
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Watercolors
Tend
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I used to have two brown-coloured cats, who were brother and sister, called Bonzo and Bonzetta.
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Sister
Cats
Brother And Sister
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I always kind of think I don't have a style, just whatever seems to be appropriate for the story.
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Appropriate
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I think what I tend to do is look at all the very ordinary things that are around the house and imagine bringing them to life.
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Imagine
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Bringing
Tend
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Biscuits are sweet things in Britain, and apparently in America a biscuit is something like a scone, something savory that you'd have with soup.
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Biscuits
Britain
Soup
Apparently
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I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.
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Picture Books
Versions
Double
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Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!
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Journey
Discovery
Unexpected
Writing
Expect
Expect The Unexpected
Happen
Start
Surprised
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Anything new is a sort of adventure - as a child, I think I was quite bad at tackling new experiences, like unusual foods, and I hated new clothes or having my hair cut.
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Adventure
Hated
New Clothes
Tackling
Unusual
Foods
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The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.
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Enormous
Favourite
Stairs
Bought
Fish
Carrying
Creature
Dr
Glass
Jar
Page
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The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.
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Costumes
Pens
Picture Books
Great Thing
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Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!
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Messages
Subtle
Complex
Convey
Expert
Explain
Loads
Picture Book
Readers
Young People
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