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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?
Michael Morpurgo
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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
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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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We're much alike, bee, you and me, I said. You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.
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Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
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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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cause when there's life there's still hope
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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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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
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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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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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I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
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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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Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
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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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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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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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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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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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