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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

Michael Morpurgo

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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 82
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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St. Albans
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
Michael Andrew Bridge
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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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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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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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That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.
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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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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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