Malorie Blackman Life Quotations

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.

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

A film of my life would never happen!

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.