Debi Gliori Quotes

I'm afraid there are no magical tips. There is no secret. Writing is all about telling stories as well as you can.

- Debi Gliori

Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me.

- Debi Gliori

Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

- Debi Gliori

My job is not to frighten children, but sometimes addressing fears and concerns within the safe boundaries of a picture book can fill me with an awesome responsibility to be as truthful and transparent as possible.

- Debi Gliori

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.

- Debi Gliori

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

- Debi Gliori

I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

- Debi Gliori

I'm ridiculously proud of my children. More so than any of my books. I suspect I wouldn't have written any of them if I hadn't been lucky enough to have this huge family.

- Debi Gliori

No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with them, fast as I can, taking notes and occasionally suggesting a left hand turn rather than the right hand one which might have taken us both over a precipice.

- Debi Gliori

For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.

- Debi Gliori

There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.

- Debi Gliori

I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.

- Debi Gliori

I was never cold-blooded enough to look for a gap in the market. I loved stories and wanted to tell stories that should be told.

- Debi Gliori

I love my shed. It's my space and my mess - and I know where everything is.

- Debi Gliori

Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.

- Debi Gliori