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Shaun Tan

My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, ‘The Book Thief.’ I thought that’s a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I’m glad he had that idea because I wouldn’t have been able to work so well with it.

– Shaun Tan

Shaun Tan

As a younger person, I was obsessed with Ray Bradbury, and I think his stories did more to shape me as a storyteller than anybody else – even though, when I read them now, a lot of them seem overly sentimental. But that’s probably the writer that I’ve thought about the most, even though I don’t necessarily like a lot of his work.

– Shaun Tan

Shaun Tan

Perhaps the writer I’ve read the most of is Haruki Murakami, the Japanese writer, but I wouldn’t necessarily say he’s a favourite. I read him because I find his work so intriguing, but I don’t necessarily feel I would follow this writer to the ends of the earth.

– Shaun Tan

Shaun Tan

I think ‘The Road’ is a good example of a book everyone should read, but I wouldn’t recommend it to young kids.

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Shaun Tan

Animals represent the abstract notion of acceptance. Living with these funny creatures – you kind of have to accept them. It’s like a test in a way.

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Shaun Tan

For myself, I’ve kind of always been interested in pets because they’re not human.

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Shaun Tan

Whenever I start a project, I have a broad range of possibilities.

– Shaun Tan

Shaun Tan

Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure science, more about the act of painting.

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Shaun Tan

It was better to be known as the kid who could draw than as the short kid.

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Shaun Tan

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

– Shaun Tan

Shaun Tan

Seeing your work in print is exciting, especially when you’re young. It’s that feeling that you have some effect on the world outside of your immediate neighbourhood.

– Shaun Tan

Shaun Tan

The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.

– Shaun Tan

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