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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: 82
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
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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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I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
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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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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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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
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cause when there's life there's still hope
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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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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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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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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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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 write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
Michael Morpurgo
Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
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