Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.
-- Eric Carle
   
Eric Carle   Name:
Eric Carle
Type:
Author
Nationality:
American
Birth:
June 25, 1929
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