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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

Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me. — Anthony Browne

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book. — 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

Although I have two good Anglepoise lights, I much prefer to work by daylight. — 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

The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director. — 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

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child. — 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

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

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 played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.' — Anthony Browne