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Anthony Browne Quotes

British - Writer | September 11, 1946 -

Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life.

Life Caring Healthy Kind Emotional

Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.

Father Man Me Strong Strong Man Big

Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.

Me Pictures Smells Evocative

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.

Age Best Imagination Words Reading

Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.

Work Feel You Alive Memoir Almost

As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.

Children Looking Book Picture Look

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.

Heart Children Respect Care Forget

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.

Life Age Children Picture Important

The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

Remember Speech Drawing You First

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

Find More Difficult Artists Writers

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.

Time Best Me Book Picture Choose

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.

Me Book Details Meaning Hidden See

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