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Boys don't cry, but men do.
And things go unsaid soon get forgotten
A good book is a good book. End of story.
When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
When did we stop being people, being human?
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.
Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.
The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.
Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.
I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.
People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.
Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.
I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.
We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
Who did it, Sephy?' She repeated. 'Who beat you up? 'Cause whoever it was, I'll kill them.
You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?
That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.
Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.
I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.
I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'
Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time.
Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'
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.
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.
I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.
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.
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.
Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.
One of us... One of them... One of us... One of them... A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track -- never ending but going nowhere.
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.
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.
Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.
Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out? The banker was a Cross. The newsreader didn't even mention it.
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.
Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.
Just remember, Callum when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall’ - Lynette McGregor