Malorie Blackman Quotes
Top 74 wise famous quotes and sayings by Malorie Blackman
Malorie Blackman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.
Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small.
He thought astrology was a load of bosh! Didn't believe in stars and planets telling his fortune or anyone else's.
If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.
A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail.
The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
Like a window had been thrown open inside my head and my heart, where there had been closed shutters before.
The single yellow diamond stud he wore in his left ear twinkled like a giggle in the morning sunlight.
A yawning hole deep inside me was begging to be filled up with words and thoughts and ideas and facts and fictions.
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Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to.
When you have to.
When you have to.
Noughts... Even the word was negative. Nothing. Nil. Zero. Nonentities. It wasn't a name we'd chosen for ourselves. It was a name we'd been given.
I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.
Books and knowledge don't make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the truth can be very dangerous.
When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.
I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.
When a chance for real happiness comes by, grab it with both hands and devour it. If it lasts five minutes or five lifetimes, it's still worth it.
I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
Five years off my life ...
I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?
I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?
I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'
I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
He was constantly surprising me like that. I had thought I didn't like surprises, but I found I did when they came from him.
Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'
He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her ... One last time ...
I wish ... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.
What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.