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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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Bag
#Day
#Myself
#One Day
#Reading
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Beginning
#Moral
#Old
#Political
#Real
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Character
#Eyes
#Find
#Know
#Trying
I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.
- Morris Gleitzman
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#I Think
#Recluse
#Successful
#Think
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Alive
#Children
#Optimism
#Own
#Power
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
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#Conflict
#Me
#School
#Situation
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Australia
#Big
#Change
#Great
#Reading
Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.
- Morris Gleitzman
#City
#Melbourne
#More
#Much
#Sydney
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Children
#Know
#Relationship
#World
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Face
#Feeling
#Limits
#People
#Young
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Back
#Life
#Living
#Puberty
#Start
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Dark Side
#Dark
#Defeat
#Despair
#Life
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Always
#Big
#Matter
#Me
#Problems
Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Alive
#Moral
#Universe
#Useful
#Way
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Always
#Good
#Know
#Problems
#Time
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Age
#Early
#Life
#Wife
#Woman
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
#Children
#Feel
#Help
#Push
#Want
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.
- Morris Gleitzman
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