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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.

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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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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I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
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There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
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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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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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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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cause when there's life there's still hope
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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 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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My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.
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