Quentin Blake Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.”

“The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.”

“A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.”

“I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?”

“Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.”

“I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.”

“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.”

“I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.”

“I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.”