Morris Gleitzman Quotes

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

You become a great writer by writing.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.