I don’t wait for inspiration. I’m not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I’m sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.