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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.

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
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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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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
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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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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
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