When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.
From Morris Gleitzman
Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to be creatively. It changed me in that it was a new way of doing my creative process, and I realised how much I liked being among tall trees.
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can go wrong.
My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.
Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.
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