I have been drawing all my life.

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Each book first begins with a little idea.

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But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.

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

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I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

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

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I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

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

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

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

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