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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.
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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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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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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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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
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