All Quotes by Anthony Browne
“When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.”
“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.”
“After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.”
“Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.”
“When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.”
“Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.”
“Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.”
“The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.”
“Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.”