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" I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child. "
Anthony Browne
Around
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" M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence. "
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" From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them. "
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" When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them that when I was their age, I didn't draw any better than any of them. "
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" A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood. "
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" Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability. "
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" I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush. "
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" Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive. "
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" Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life. "
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" 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. "
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" The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director. "
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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. "
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" As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully. "
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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. "
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" Pictures are as evocative to me as smells. "
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" I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was. "
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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. "
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