English - Author | January 9, 1953 -
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.
Morris Gleitzman
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I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
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It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can go wrong.
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I want to help children develop strengths that allow them to feel they don't have to push things away mentally... If we 'cotton-ball' kids, it produces adults who are too scared to think for themselves and are easily manipulated.
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My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.
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Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.
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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.
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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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I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.
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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.
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If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.
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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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