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cause when there's life there's still hope
Michael Morpurgo
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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 82
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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St. Albans
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
Michael Andrew Bridge
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More quotes by Michael Morpurgo
Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
Michael Morpurgo
Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
Michael Morpurgo
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.
Michael Morpurgo
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.
Michael Morpurgo
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
Michael Morpurgo
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.
Michael Morpurgo
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.
Michael Morpurgo
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'.
Michael Morpurgo
That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.
Michael Morpurgo
It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
Michael Morpurgo
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.
Michael Morpurgo
If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
Michael Morpurgo
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.
Michael Morpurgo
Anything that gets children reading is fine.
Michael Morpurgo
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
Michael Morpurgo
I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
Michael Morpurgo
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
Michael Morpurgo
I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
Michael Morpurgo
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.
Michael Morpurgo
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
