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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.
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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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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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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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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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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Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
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