Morris Gleitzman

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

I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age…

— Morris Gleitzman

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

Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70,…

— Morris Gleitzman

In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The…

— Morris Gleitzman

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen…

— Morris Gleitzman

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

— Morris Gleitzman

In all of my books, I'm taking them on an emotionally challenging and sometimes physically dangerous process with a bit of fun…

— Morris Gleitzman

Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to…

— Morris Gleitzman

Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once

— Morris Gleitzman

“There’s a rumour Hitler has killed himself.”

— Morris Gleitzman

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

“Barney said that everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once. I have. More than once.”

— Morris Gleitzman

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

— Morris Gleitzman

“My friend Zelda once said that tears are how we give love a wash, so it doesn't go mouldy.”

— Morris Gleitzman

Halfway through primary school, I realised that I was not as physically strong or fearless as many kids. So, in situations of…

— Morris Gleitzman

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,…

— Morris Gleitzman

“Everybody deserves something good in there life atleast once”

— Morris Gleitzman

“Your mummy and daddy love you very much,’ she’d say. ‘But people can’t fry potatoes after they’re dead.”

— Morris Gleitzman

I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my…

— Morris Gleitzman

I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel…

— Morris Gleitzman

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

— Morris Gleitzman

It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can…

— Morris Gleitzman

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

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm…

— Morris Gleitzman