Morris Gleitzman Quotes

Hope is the raw material of losers.

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Man is not made for defeat.

I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

We have all lost before and we will win again.

I think comics are really - superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they're about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that's not to say all stories should be happy.

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.

My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.