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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.

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
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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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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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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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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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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
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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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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
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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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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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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. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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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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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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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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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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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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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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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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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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