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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

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
Cling
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Life

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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
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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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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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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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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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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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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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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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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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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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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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cause when there's life there's still hope
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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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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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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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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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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
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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.
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