67 Quotes by Morris Gleitzman

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.

I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.

Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.