Morris Gleitzman

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.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

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.

See? Memories aren't happy, they're sad. Don't you know anything?

We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united