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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.
Michael Morpurgo
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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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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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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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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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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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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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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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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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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.
Michael Morpurgo
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.
Michael Morpurgo
I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
Michael Morpurgo
I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
Michael Morpurgo
cause when there's life there's still hope
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