Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Gillian Cross

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British author Gillian Cross.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Gillian Cross

Gillian Cross is a British author of children's books. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for Wolf and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for The Great Elephant Chase. She also wrote The Demon Headmaster book series, which was later turned into a television series by the BBC in January 1996; a sequel series was produced in 2019.

Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.
Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.
I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader. — © Gillian Cross
I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.
I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.
The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.
Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.
If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.
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