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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

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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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
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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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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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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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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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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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