Morris Gleitzman Quotes

It took me a long time to grow up.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let a reader dwell in the pangs of realization that we sometimes try to protect our children from.

Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you get bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.

Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!

It takes a long time to become young.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.