Malorie Blackman Quotes

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

Children are so talented. Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be given the time and the space and the materials to do their work. That's all they need.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

We became the songs we wrote.

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.