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Anything that gets children reading is fine.

Michael Morpurgo

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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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St. Albans
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
Michael Andrew Bridge
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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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By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
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I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.
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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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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
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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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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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If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.
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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 have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.
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Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
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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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There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
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I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
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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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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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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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