Writer Quotes by Morris Gleitzman

10 Writer quotes by Morris Gleitzman

All Writer quotes Morris Gleitzman’s page

Morris Gleitzman’s ten entries celebrate the imaginative spark that drives writers, while acknowledging the perseverance required to keep the story alive. The tone is encouraging, making each thought a gentle push toward creative persistence.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be…

Morris Gleitzman

Image

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

Morris Gleitzman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Other authors on Writer

More by Morris Gleitzman

A little hope goes a long way.

Morris Gleitzman

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

Image

We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united

Morris Gleitzman

Image

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

Image

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

Morris Gleitzman

Image

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

Image

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Morris Gleitzman

Image

“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