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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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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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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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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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For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.
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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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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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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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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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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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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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cause when there's life there's still hope
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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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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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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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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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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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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 think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
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