Tony DiTerlizzi

“Usually, an author writes a manuscript that is handed in to the editor. The editor will then work with an art director to find just the right illustrator for the job, and off they go. Many times, the illustrator and author never meet.”

“I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.”

“So is death a journey? Is it to another place?" she asked. "Is it another planet?""Many have wondered this very question,"replied rovender. "But there is an old Caerulan saying: When your journey reaches its destination here, may you walk on through the memories of those still with us.”

“Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives.”

“I think about what 10-year-old Tony would want that 40-year-old Tony can make.”

“I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to Middle Earth. 'Dungeons & Dragons' was a huge influence.”

“The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come.”

“It reveals that people are confusing."Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.”

“When you're in elementary school, you get these amazing assignments, like to come up with your own animal, come up with your own city, come up with your own planet, what do the people look like; you're very much encouraged to be as imaginative as possible.”

“I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.”

“I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it.”

“In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl.”

“If I rewind back to that period, I was 8 in 1977 when 'Star Wars' was in theaters. I saved up money, or my parents got me the 'Art of Star Wars' book.”

“My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.”

“Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.”

“I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.”

“I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.”

“I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance.”

“I've always been a chameleon from book to book, like a director who does different films in the best possible way.”

“Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.”