Mo Willems on Writing

“An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.”

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“Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.”

“I also learn a lot about everybody else's process. People create in different ways, so that has opened me up to different processes and experimenting.”

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“I’m very lucky in that I don’t understand the world yet. If I understood the world, it would be harder for me to write these books.”

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