I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire to share the joy of reading with children.
Malorie Blackman emphasizes the importance of fostering a love for reading and storytelling in children. She believes that by sharing her enthusiasm, she can inspire young minds to appreciate literature, which can have a lasting impact on their lives and development.
In practice
In a school assembly to encourage students to read more.
What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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.'
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.
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.
I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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.
We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.
In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed, and about the carelessness and inclination toward bias that must be avoided is far more useful than all the rules and warnings of theoretical logic.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.
Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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