Quotes by Gillian Cross

About 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.
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The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.

Gillian Cross

….This time she did not feel a thing when the Headmaster stuck the pin into her arm.

Gillian Cross

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

Gillian Cross

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

Gillian Cross

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.

Gillian Cross

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

Gillian Cross

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.

Gillian Cross

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.

Gillian Cross

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

Gillian Cross

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameGillian Cross
  • DescriptionChildren's author
  • Born1945
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter