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

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#Book Quotes #Daddy Quotes #Design Quotes

“A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.”
Anthony Browne
“As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.”
Anthony Browne
“I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture booksâ€¦. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.”
Anthony Browne
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
Anthony Browne

Source : Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage
“Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.”
Anthony Browne

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