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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

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty. — Allan Gurganus

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life. — Morris Gleitzman

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that. — Morris Gleitzman

See? Memories aren't happy, they're sad. Don't you know anything? — Morris Gleitzman

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way. — 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 if we've moved beneath the surface. — Morris Gleitzman

The best value translations of the Poetic Edda are by Hollander from Texas Uni Press, or by Larrington of Oxford Uni Press. — Sweyn Plowright

He can do it any time he wants,' says Zelda, hugging me from the other side. 'Any time he sees a Nazi, he can just do a poo. — Morris Gleitzman

Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you. — Junot Diaz

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film. — Morris Gleitzman

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney. — Morris Gleitzman

There was something so comforting in the certainty that someone knew about your biggest flaws and was still willing to stick around. — R.K. Lilley

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh. — Morris Gleitzman

I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop their newly developed moral muscle. — Morris Gleitzman

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

A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.' — Joan Rivers

We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united — Morris Gleitzman

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

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness. — Morris Gleitzman

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag. — Tim Kaine

The crashing sound of years lost shattered in her ears, and new fears emerged from the looking glass. Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever sing again. — Nikki Grimes

So much is invisible. — Morag Joss

I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that. — Nicholas Hoult

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off. — 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 go wrong. — Morris Gleitzman

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself. — Morris Gleitzman

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows. — Northrop Frye

A little hope goes a long way. — Morris Gleitzman

Go on. What about her? Come on, man. You killed my brothers. I killed Fitchner. It's already awkward. — Pierce Brown

Barney said that everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once. I have. More than once. — Morris Gleitzman

Everybody deserves something good in there life atleast once — Morris Gleitzman

Lack of subtlety, that's how you beat magic. — Carrie Vaughn

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to. — Alexis De Tocqueville

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life. — Morris Gleitzman

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. — Mason Cooley

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue. — Edward Gibbon