Morris Gleitzman Life Quotations

I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.

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

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

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.