Morris Gleitzman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Morris Gleitzman quotes and sayings page 2 (author). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 36 we have.
“I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.”
“My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.”
“Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.”
“When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my 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.”
“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.”
“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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