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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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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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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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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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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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I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
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Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.
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Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
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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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Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
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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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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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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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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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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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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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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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I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.
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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.
Michael Morpurgo