67 Quotes by Morris Gleitzman

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    Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

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    Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.

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    Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to be creatively. It changed me in that it was a new way of doing my creative process, and I realised how much I liked being among tall trees.

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    I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

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    The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they're actually capable of solving.

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    Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once.

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