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Malorie Blackman Quotes

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When life knocks you down, keep getting up  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I’m a voice for children’s books and children’s reading  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) But remember this if nothing else: I love you more than there are words or stars. I love you more than there are thoughts and feelings. I love you more than there are seconds or moments gone or to come. I love you  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I don’t believe in regrets. There are a few things I’d do differently, but I can’t go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I’m too talented to fail.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I personally, as a teenager, didn’t like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I’m one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you’ve got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, ‘How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?’ And she looked at me and said, ‘Because there aren’t any.’  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn’t white is very old fashioned.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was ‘A Thief in the Village’ by James Berry, and I thought, ‘Is this still the state of publishing?’ Then I thought, ‘Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.’  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn’t see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like ‘love thy neighbor’ and ‘ do unto others as you would have them do unto you’. If nothing else, wasn’t the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves ‘God’s chosen’ and still treat us the way they did?  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children’s books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn’t be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be ‘issue-based’.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) If a child wants to read ‘Twilight’ over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) People are people. We’ll always find a way to mess up, doesn’t matter who’s in charge.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) Being the Children’s Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary’s definition of nerd: ‘one whose IQ exceeds his weight’. I’m also keen on the same Urban Dictionary’s definition of geek: ‘the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult’. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) I hadn’t fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’ was talking out of his or her armpit  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) Don’t you know that boys don’t cry?’ Adam grinned. ‘Shall I tell you something I’ve only recently discovered,’ I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. ‘Boys don’t cry, but real men do  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you’re up there. Somewhere  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) And things go unsaid soon get forgotten  (Malorie Blackman Quotes) Jude’s fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either  (Malorie Blackman Quotes)
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