Morris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzmanis an English-born Australian author of children's and young adult fiction. He has gained recognition for sparking an interest in AIDS in his controversial novel Two Weeks with the Queen...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth9 January 1953
books change great nearly reading shock stopped
In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.
good interested stuff
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.
allow children develop easily produces scared strengths themselves
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.
age decide group nine people themselves
At around nine or 10 years of age, young people start to decide for themselves what's moral or not, and that's why I like writing for that age group so much.
may united manchester
We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united
deserve
Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once
long littles way
A little hope goes a long way.
waiting advice yards
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.
book character feelings
I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
biggest people stories type
The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they're actually capable of solving.
bad best flowing rather talk tend writers
I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we tend to talk in short grabs rather than in long flowing sentences. I think that's not a bad way to write.
I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.
I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.