Top 56 Quotes by Malorie Blackman

Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

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.

A good book is a good book. End of story.

I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.