Malorie Blackman

“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.”

“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.'”