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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 82
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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St. Albans
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
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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 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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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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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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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
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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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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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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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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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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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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'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
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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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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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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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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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