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I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Books Decent Easy Good Like Make Me Over Pretty Sentences Talk Them Try Write Writer I Write

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The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Age Because Books Children First Illustrations Important Incredibly Life Most Paintings Picture See Share Stays Us

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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

Topics: Always Back Best Book Books Choose Come Could Felt First First Time Force Gorilla Me Picture Time Understood

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Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Away Being Books Children Earlier Feeling Get Look Marginalised Means Picture Pictures Proper Pushed Which Without

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

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Around Books Child Many Picture Were

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

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Books Daddy Design Picture Psychology Rhythm Them Words

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What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: About Between Books Different Different Story Excites Feeling Gap How Me More Picture Pictures Slightly Someone Sometimes Story Tell Thinking Words

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Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Adult Believed Books Changed Hope Many Met Minds My Time Out Picture Set Time

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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

Topics: Books Children Creativity Exists Fundamental Imagination Inspiring Laureate Passion Post Reason Them Why World

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One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Accepting Am Begin Books Children Continue Decisions Illustrate Job Laureate Main Must Picture Question Some Then Time Who Working Write I Am

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