Malorie Blackman Quotes

Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

Malorie Blackman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 8, 1962

Topics

GoodChildrenChildStoryThinkGo

You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out.

Jim Harrison

WalkRiverForestYouOutShape

Those are the kinds of roles you can really sink your teeth into. Characters with an edge. When you're playing someone who's sort of seedy, there's less limitation, there's so much space you can travel. There's room to move in.

Matt Dillon

TravelSpaceSomeoneYouEdgeTeeth

'Lincoln' is impressive enough to almost make you forget how much Daniel Day-Lewis dominates the endeavor.

Steve Erickson

EnoughYouForgetEndeavorAlmost

I read Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha' while I was writing 'Lord of Light' along with many other things. It seemed a good time to read it so I could see what he had to say about Buddha. In my first chapter, I was thinking in terms of the big battle scene in the 'Mahabarata.' It helped me in visualizing the battle in my novel.

Roger Zelazny

GoodTimeLightMeWritingThinking

Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win.

Mike Gallagher

GoodMenEvilWinBattleWrong

We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week.

Miguel Ferrer

ConfidenceGreatArtJobWriting

I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

Dree Hemingway

LearningMyselfExperienceI AmYou

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

David Simon

ChoicesJournalismSaidSayTrue

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Corazon Aquino

FreedomPowerLightDemocracyYou

A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack.

Brantley Gilbert

LifeAnimalMy LifePartyThings

I never heard Jack Nicklaus say, 'I'm a great player,' or Tiger Woods, as a matter of fact. They just get out and do it. And I think that's far more appealing... than talking about how good you are.

Arnold Palmer

GoodGreatWoodsThinkTalkingYou

Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.

Penelope Cruz

YourselfI AmStartYouLookEnemy

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