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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: 81
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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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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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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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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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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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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I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
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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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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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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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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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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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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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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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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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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 write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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