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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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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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I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
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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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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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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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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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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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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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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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cause when there's life there's still hope
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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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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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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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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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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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Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
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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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I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
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