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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Kids aren’t political, but around 10 years old, they are beginning to develop the moral grounding that might later, in their teens, develop into their first real political perspectives. Morris Gleitzman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to be creatively. It changed me in that it was a new way of doing my creative process, and I realised how much I liked being among tall trees. Morris Gleitzman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Morris Gleitzman Read Quote
My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father – he liked to entertain people, make people laugh. Morris Gleitzman Read Quote
Kid’s culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald’s, but it’s so much more important than that. Morris Gleitzman Read Quote
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. Morris Gleitzman Read Quote
