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Brian Selznick, né le 14 juillet 1966 à East Brunswick dans le New Jersey, est un écrivain américain pour enfants, auteur notamment de L'Invention de Hugo Cabret pour lequel il a reçu la médaille Caldecott. Diplômé de l'école de design de Rhode Island, il commence à travailler dans une librairie pour vendre des livres pour enfants. En 2013, il remporte le prix Sorcières dans la catégorie roman junior pour Black Out, publié chez Bayard Jeunesse. En 2017, il reçoit le prix Inkpot pour l'ensemble de son œuvre. Wikipedia  

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Brian Selznick: Citations en anglais

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”

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Brian Selznick livre The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.”

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Brian Selznick livre Wonderstruck

Source: Wonderstruck

“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.”

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Brian Selznick livre The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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“If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.”

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Brian Selznick livre The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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“Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do… Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose… it's like your broken.”

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Brian Selznick livre The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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“Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to.

Like now.”

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Brian Selznick livre The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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“I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.”

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“Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies

from The Invention of Hugo Cabret”

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Brian Selznick livre The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.”

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Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret & Official 'Hugo' Movie Companion

“In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.”

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Brian Selznick livre The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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“Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.”

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Brian Selznick livre The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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“She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.”

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Brian Selznick livre The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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“Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders.”

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Brian Selznick livre Wonderstruck

Variante: Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.
Source: Wonderstruck

“It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.”

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“I could never imagine a movie being made from the way I had structured the book, it still feels miraculous that we made it this way without compromising the story, but everything has felt miraculous since I got that first phone call saying Martin Scorsese wants to make a movie out of 'Hugo.”

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I recognize how lucky I am.
Brian Selznick: The author who inspired Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes to make family films http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesneaks/la-ca-mn-0903-sneaks-brian-selznick-wonderstruck-20170903-story.html (September 1, 2017)

“I don’t really feel like the gender of character is what causes someone to identify with them. It’s the situation they’re in, it’s the way they deal with danger, the way that they deal with fears. And so I feel like it’s a slightly larger question in terms of what makes us identify with someone.”

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Inventions of Brian Selznick: Latest book makes unusual trilogy http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/book-blog/inventions-of-brian-selznick-latest-book-makes-unusual-trilogy/article_6651a90e-726b-50e3-b999-20b579c00bfd.html (September 20, 2015)

“It's funny, I grew up in a happy family with loving parents, but I've killed off a lot of parents in these books. The orphan in children's literature, allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?”

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it is about finding your place in the world.
Source: Brian Selznick: how Scorsese's Hugo drew inspiration from his magical book https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/11/brian-selznick-hugo-martin-scorsese (February 11, 2012)

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