Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you. Tony DiTerlizzi More Quotes by Tony DiTerlizzi More Quotes From Tony DiTerlizzi I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations. Tony DiTerlizzi think imagination hope inspire I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance. Tony DiTerlizzi better you understanding love I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read. Tony DiTerlizzi books thought love ideas The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge. Tony DiTerlizzi pictures challenge world art 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. Tony DiTerlizzi story good look matter 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. Tony DiTerlizzi movies nature brain ideas I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more. Tony DiTerlizzi you family life death With the success of 'Spiderwick,' it's allowed me to be able to have the freedom to really be able to tell the stories that I really wanted to tell, that I've always wanted to tell. Tony DiTerlizzi me always freedom success I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make. Tony DiTerlizzi down never dumb character When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive. Tony DiTerlizzi survive see technology mind 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. Tony DiTerlizzi story see stage i-can My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot. Tony DiTerlizzi over emotional active focus I want my stories to be understood and enjoyed by anyone, so I need 'beta-readers' who will tell me when the plot is working or not working, and when my writing is concise or vague. Tony DiTerlizzi will me want writing When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that. Tony DiTerlizzi teachers loved parents lucky 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. Tony DiTerlizzi parents me money art 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. Tony DiTerlizzi i-am create best children Now, as Global Ambassador for Starlight Children's Foundation, which brightens the lives of poorly children, I visit hospitals and tell stories to the young patients. Sometimes I read. Sometimes I draw. Tony DiTerlizzi tell foundation sometimes children I can't remember a time when I wasn't inspired by 'Star Wars.' Tony DiTerlizzi star inspired time remember
