Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me. Debi Gliori Read Quote
I call my golden retriever Cara my ‘white wolf.’ She’s changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain. Debi Gliori Read Quote
I’m afraid there are no magical tips. There is no secret. Writing is all about telling stories as well as you can. Debi Gliori Read Quote
My job is not to frighten children, but sometimes addressing fears and concerns within the safe boundaries of a picture book can fill me with an awesome responsibility to be as truthful and transparent as possible. Debi Gliori Read Quote
No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with them, fast as I can, taking notes and occasionally suggesting a left hand turn rather than the right hand one which might have taken us both over a precipice. Debi Gliori Read Quote
There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I’ll never write another word: I’m finished, empty, a husk… Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I’ve suffered insomnia for my art. Debi Gliori Read Quote
Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don’t exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It’s a paid form of madness, this writing stuff. Debi Gliori Read Quote
It’s a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing. Debi Gliori Read Quote
I’m ridiculously proud of my children. More so than any of my books. I suspect I wouldn’t have written any of them if I hadn’t been lucky enough to have this huge family. Debi Gliori Read Quote
