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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
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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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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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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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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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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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cause when there's life there's still hope
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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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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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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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I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
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