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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.

Michael Morpurgo

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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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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.
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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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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 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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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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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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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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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
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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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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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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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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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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'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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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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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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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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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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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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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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