Malorie Blackman Trying Quotations

He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time...

What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.