I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

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• Dick Bruna:

  But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me

• Dick Bruna:

  My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the fir

• Dick Bruna:

  Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my f

• Dick Bruna:

  I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for i

• Dick Bruna:

  I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I

• Dick Bruna:

  Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings

• Dick Bruna:

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

• Dick Bruna:

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

• Dick Bruna:

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

• Dick Bruna:

  Each book first begins with a little idea.