The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director. — Anthony Browne Cinema Copy Share Image
Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability. — Anthony Browne Ability Copy Share Image
Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations. — Anthony Browne Come Copy Share Image
Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me. — Anthony Browne About 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 Artist Copy Share Image
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.' — Anthony Browne Age 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 Character Copy Share Image
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the… — Anthony Browne Book Copy Share Image
Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on… — Anthony Browne Adult Copy Share Image
As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny… — Anthony Browne Always Copy Share Image
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply… — Anthony Browne Apply Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Browne Always Copy Share Image
You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality… — Anthony Browne Definitions 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… — Anthony Browne Age Copy Share Image
The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when… — Anthony Browne Background Copy Share Image
What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story… — Anthony Browne About 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… — Anthony Browne Afraid 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 Afterwards 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… — Anthony Browne About Copy Share Image
One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If… — Anthony Browne Accepting Copy Share Image
I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture… — Anthony Browne Age Copy Share Image
Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back. — Anthony Browne Back 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… — Anthony Browne Age Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. — Anthony Browne Age Copy Share Image
Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive. — Anthony Browne Also 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… — Anthony Browne Being Copy Share Image
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child. — Anthony Browne Bond 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… — Anthony Browne Age Copy Share Image
After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was… — Anthony Browne After 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… — Anthony Browne Books Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave… — Anthony Browne Adding Copy Share Image
Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it. — Anthony Browne Creativity Copy Share Image
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book. — Anthony Browne Book 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 Always Copy Share Image
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous. — Anthony Browne Alive Copy Share Image
Although I have two good Anglepoise lights, I much prefer to work by daylight. — Anthony Browne Although Copy Share Image
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 Cousins Copy Share Image
