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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
Michael Andrew Bridge
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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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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 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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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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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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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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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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cause when there's life there's still hope
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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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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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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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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
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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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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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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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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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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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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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