English - Cartoonist | December 16, 1932 -
I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
Quentin Blake
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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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