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I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we'd travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire.
— Anthony Browne
Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.
— Anthony Browne
H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.
— Maxwell Bodenheim
Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.
— Anthony Browne
M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
— Anthony Browne
Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life.
— 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.
— Anthony Browne
A person who is impartial, fair, calm, gentle, serene, accepting, and openhearted is indeed a refuge.
— Karen Armstrong
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
— 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.
— Anthony Browne
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
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.
— Anthony Browne
I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.
— Alicia Silverstone
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.
— Anthony Browne
Someone recently asked what I am most proud of. The thing I'm most proud of is that I'm in my 50s and I'm still a leading lady.
— Kim Cattrall
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
— Anthony Browne
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
— Anthony Browne
I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.
— Anthony Browne
Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.
— Anthony Browne
Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.
— Anthony Browne
Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.
— Anthony Browne
Why do you stay in the prison of stress when keys are in your hand?
— Debasish Mridha
Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
— Anthony Browne
Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.
— Anthony Browne
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.
— 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.
— Anthony Browne
