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Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
Michael Morpurgo
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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 82
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
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There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
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Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.
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I spend months, sometimes years, doing what I call dreamtime, weaving it together inside my head. But when I actually feel that the egg of my story is ready to hatch, then I can write it in three months. Then I know the landscape and the people well and from the inside, but I don't necessarily know where the story is going to take us.
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That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.
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Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is not to read a book about it, or see a movie about it, it's to talk to the people who've been there.
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I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice and the confidence to tell it? We lack the encouragement as young people to believe this we very often think that writing is for clever people, which it isn't.
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I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.
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Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.
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We're much alike, bee, you and me, I said. You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
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I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'.
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It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
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Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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