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“I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.”

Quote by Carson Ellis

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Carson Ellis, born on October 5, 1975, is a talented artist known for her unique visual style and creative imagination. Her work spans across illustration, design, and writing, and is celebrated for its dreamlike colors and intricate details. more

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“Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to keep the momentum going. It's the kind of art I love to make, except that the time frame is really nutty.”

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“I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.”

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“I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.”

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“God is best known in not knowing him.”

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“I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.”

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“I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.”

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“I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.”

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“Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.”

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“I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author and say, "Hey, okay. I'm interrupting the narrator here. I'm Bret Easton Ellis, and I'm the author."”

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