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
I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush. — Anthony Browne Brush 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
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
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
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
The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director. — Anthony Browne Cinema 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
Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me. — Anthony Browne About 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
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
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
Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability. — Anthony Browne Ability 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
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
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'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
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
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
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
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
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
