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Morris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzman
English Author
Born: Jan 9, 1953
Life People Problems Think You Young
Related authors: A. A. Milne H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek Terry Pratchett
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. Morris Gleitzman
Care Beneath Characters About Only Because Surface Caught Up Get Moved Happen Story Started
I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film. Morris Gleitzman
Character Thoughts You Book Feelings Discovered Than Get Closer Film
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
Power Own Experiment Books Alive Possibilities Through Shape Limited Optimism Children Lives Kept
Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney. Morris Gleitzman
Type Melbourne City More Than Much Sydney
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, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures. Morris Gleitzman
Opportunities Bit Kids Parent Having More Exciting Involved Lot End Up Families May Being Order Break Break Up Certainty Less Figures Trauma Presents
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life. Morris Gleitzman
Life Dark Dark Side Defeat Despair Side Would Only Write Never Stories
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
Best Day Every Day Language Long Every Think Other Way Bad Rather Tend Write Writers Bad Way Talk Friends Than Short Sentences Use Each Flowing
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
Me Matter Problems Big Characters Pretty About Struggling Write Reminded Like Underneath Although Always How Surface Very Same Big Problems Different Stories Much
Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way. Morris Gleitzman
Universe Way Alive Moral Vivid Very Stories Engaging Useful Bring
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
Life You Living Consequences Back Seeking Having Most Done Going Being After Reproduce Either Again Puberty Your Start
The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they're actually capable of solving. Morris Gleitzman
People Problems Young Type Solving About Write Than Often Stories Bigger Biggest Young People Capable Grappling Lives Actually
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
Prevail Me You Conflict Strong Better School Somebody Situation Humour Punch Kids Out Kind Fearless Physically Through Primary Primary School Know Learned Halfway Quickly Than Get Trying Situations Maybe Realised Worked Many Using
I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn. Morris Gleitzman
People Cinema Pleasurable Had Most Screen Experiences Prefer Palace Watching
When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life. Morris Gleitzman
Life My Life Important Live Finally Part Became Important Part Forests Mountain Did
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. Morris Gleitzman
Good Our Potential Wrong Stuff Most Go Interested Meaning Exploring Things
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
Think Too Kids Easily Scared Mentally Adult Push Allow Develop Feel Children Want Manipulated Them Themselves Produces Help Who Away Things Strengths
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
Time Good Problems Every Every Time Nine Kids Outcome Solutions Pretty Sophisticated Know Readers Always Who
Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen. Morris Gleitzman
Experiment Imagination Scary Like Particularly Boy Go Where Happen Stories Places Images
I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness. Morris Gleitzman
Past Carries Kinds Someone Named Always Been After Aware
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
Life Woman Age Wife Married Had He Knew Poland Named Most His Left Died After Century Grandfather Grandmother England Who Lived Early Early Age Jewish
In all of my books, I'm taking them on an emotionally challenging and sometimes physically dangerous process with a bit of fun and anarchy along the way. With the power comes responsibility. Morris Gleitzman
Dangerous Sometimes Responsibility Power Books Way Anarchy Bit Physically Emotionally Taking Along Process Them Fun Challenging

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