I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes,… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
