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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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Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
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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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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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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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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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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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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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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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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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