Quotes from Morris Gleitzman

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their ideas and themes and problems and ambitions must be commensurately smaller and less important. I would venture that sometimes the opposite is true.

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.

Soon, I hope, this is what will happen. People will start to get better. The city will start to heal. Me and Gabriek and Anya and her baby will live together in our hideout, safe and happy behind our sack curtains. A family

Sometimes, to fix people up, you have to be brave.

Don't blame other people for your own mistakes.

Don't think about mistakes you've made in the past. Don't worry about what might happen in the future if this goes wrong. When your blade cuts into the skin, just think about now.

De repente quiero que me clave una de las jeringuillas, para poder caer en un sueño profundo y no despertarme nunca, para no volver a sentir este dolor nunca más.

A veces, los padres no pueden proteger a sus hijos incluso aunque les quieran más que a nada en el mundo. A veces incluso cuando lo intentan con todas sus fuerzas, no pueden salvarlos. Puedo

Todo el mundo merece que le ocurra algo bueno en su vida, al menos una vez.

Suddenly I want him to stick one of the syringes into me so I can go into a deep sleep and never wake up and never feel this bad ever again.

A little hope goes a long way.

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.

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

Everybody deserves something good in there life atleast once

We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united

He didn't know the first thing about greed. He thought it was all about money.