Quotes by Morris Gleitzman - Page 1

A little hope goes a long way.
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Littles
Long
Way
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Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.
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Melbourne
Sydney
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We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united
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Manchester
May
United
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Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once
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Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.
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Alive
Engaging
Moral
Universe
Vivid
Useful
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I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
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Dark
Dark Side
Defeat
Despair
Stories
Side
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I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.
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Recluse
Author
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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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Book
Character
Feelings
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I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
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Closer
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When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.
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Forests
Mountain
Life My Life Important
Important Part
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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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Humour
Entertain
Entertain People
Largely
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Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.
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Advice
Waiting
Yards
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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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Named
Carries
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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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Superficial
Dismissed
Mcdonald
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I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn.
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Cinema
Palace
Pleasurable
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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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Exploring
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I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop their newly developed moral muscle.
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Gym
Muscle
Developed
Newly
Readers
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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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Caught
Beneath
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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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Betrayal
Reader
Author
Version
Sold
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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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Scary
Experiment
Images
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At around nine or 10 years of age, young people start to decide for themselves what's moral or not, and that's why I like writing for that age group so much.
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Nine
Age Group
Age Start People
Young People
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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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Alive
Experiment
Limited
Possibilities
Shape
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Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start going back to being 11 again.
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Done
Puberty
Seeking
Life Start Your
Life Done Your
Living
Consequences
Again
Life Your Start
Either
Having
Life Living Your
Reproduce
Start
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Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.
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Nine
Solutions
Time Good Problems
Outcome
Readers
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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.
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Importance
Setting
Teens
Big Event
Event
Slowly
Readers
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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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Capable
Grappling
Problems People Young
Solving
Young People
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Kids aren't political, but around 10 years old, they are beginning to develop the moral grounding that might later, in their teens, develop into their first real political perspectives.
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Grounding
Teens
Perspectives
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In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.
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Heat
Reading Books
Shock
Big Change
Nearly
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I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them.
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Embarrassed
Enjoyed
Realised
Bag
Deeply
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In all of my books, I'm taking them on an emotionally challenging and sometimes physically dangerous process with a bit of fun and anarchy along the way. With the power comes responsibility.
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Anarchy
Emotionally
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I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we tend to talk in short grabs rather than in long flowing sentences. I think that's not a bad way to write.
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Sentences
Best Long Day
Bad Way
Short
Writers
Flowing
Tend
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I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour.
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Behaviour
Limits
Prevailing
Strong Feeling
Unfair
Basis
Cruel
Young People
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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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Mentally
Manipulated
Produces
Push
Strengths
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Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures.
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Break Up
Certainty
Figures
Parent
Presents
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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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Grandfather
Poland
Jewish
Named
Early Age
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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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Creative Process
Posture
Realised
Forest
New Way
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Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their ideas and themes and problems and ambitions must be commensurately smaller and less important. I would venture that sometimes the opposite is true.
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Ambition
Assumption
Venture
Time Long Important
Opposite
Time Long Problems
Smaller
Themes
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Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.
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Big Problems
Surface
Reminded
Struggling
Underneath
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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.
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Realised
Stuck
Facing
Sentence
Whack
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Halfway through primary school, I realised that I was not as physically strong or fearless as many kids. So, in situations of conflict, I quickly learned that it worked better for me to get out of situations or maybe kind of, you know, prevail in a conflict situation by using humour than by trying to punch somebody out.
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Conflict
Halfway
Humour
Primary School
Realised
Prevail
Punch
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