Quotes from Gillian Cross

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.

This time she did not feel a thing when the Headmaster stuck the pin into her arm.

Asleep? All the morning?

nice to her. It had cost her quite a lot to push the door open. But

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.