Chris Van Allsburg > Quotes

“At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.”
― Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express

“The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.”
― Chris Van Allsburg

“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.”
― Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express

“its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.”
― Chris Van Allsburg

“The bell still rings for all who truly believe”
― Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express

“I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.”
― Chris Van Allsburg

“If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson”
― Chris Van Allsburg, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."
from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers”
― Chris Van Allsburg, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

“when the girl disappeared among the”
― Chris Van Allsburg, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales