“The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all...” — Malorie Blackman Quote

“The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.”

“Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.”

“Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.”

“Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.”

“When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches you could be a Nobel laureate. Some subjects are at the tri-junction of many subjects put together.”

“The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!”