Morris Gleitzman

Author

1953-01-09

Books by Morris Gleitzman

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Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.
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Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.
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I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.
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I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour.
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I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.
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