10 Quotes by Gillian Cross

The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.

….This time she did not feel a thing when the Headmaster stuck the pin into her arm.

Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.