I started looking at it, ... and I thought, `Oh my God, this is like Gertrude Stein wrote this book.` It`s so funny and so eccentric. The imagery was so clear that I knew immediately that I was going to illustrate it.
who never told me to do anything realistic and who never told me to stop daydreaming.
The Elements of Style.
I said to myself, how could anyone not have illustrated this before?