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Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

~Anthony Browne

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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.

~Anthony Browne

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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

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

~Anthony Browne

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Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.

~Anthony Browne

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I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that children are far more capable and aware of social complexities than we give them credit for.

~Anthony Browne

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M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.

~Anthony Browne

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I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.

~Anthony Browne

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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

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As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

~Anthony Browne

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: September 11th, 1946

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