56 Quotes by Anthony Browne

Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.

I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'

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.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books – the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

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.

DEFINITION Political correctness is an ideology that classifies certain groups of people as victims in need of protection from criticism, and which makes believers feel that no dissent should be tolerated.