Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
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… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop their newly… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
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… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
“Potato slices, crispy and fragrant. And toast glistening with what looks like actual creamy butter. And three fried eggs. That’s more eggs than I’ve… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
“De repente quiero que me clave una de las jeringuillas, para poder caer en un sueño profundo y no despertarme nunca, para no volver… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
“Dear Reader Once and its sequel Then are two parts of the same story, but they were written and published as two separate books.… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
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. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share
