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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

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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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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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'.
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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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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
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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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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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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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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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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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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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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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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
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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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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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It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
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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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