Author: Anthony Browne

Quotes

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

- Anthony Browne

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

- Anthony Browne

Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.

Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.

- Anthony Browne

I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.

I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.

- Anthony Browne

Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life.

Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life.

- Anthony Browne

Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.

Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.

- Anthony Browne

Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.

Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.

- Anthony Browne

I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.

I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.

- Anthony Browne

Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.

Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.

- Anthony Browne

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