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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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Novelist
Playwright
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St. Albans
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
Michael Andrew Bridge
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Hell
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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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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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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'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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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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I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
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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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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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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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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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I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
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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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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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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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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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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'.
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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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