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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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St. Albans
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
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I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
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I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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cause when there's life there's still hope
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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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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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Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.
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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 think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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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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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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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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Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
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