Quotes from Anthony Browne
Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.
- Anthony Browne
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 line and wash.
- Anthony Browne
You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
- Anthony Browne
Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.
- Anthony Browne
Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.
- Anthony Browne
The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.
- Anthony Browne
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.
- Anthony Browne
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
- Anthony Browne
Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.
- Anthony Browne