Malorie Blackman Professions : Writer Born : February 8, 1962 Browse All Authors Top 63 quotes by Malorie Blackman I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design. Malorie Blackman think design music way When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice. Malorie Blackman great you work long What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point. Malorie Blackman own creativity creative literature Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors