Quentin Blake Quotations

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.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.