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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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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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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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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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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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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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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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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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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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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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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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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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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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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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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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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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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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Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is not to read a book about it, or see a movie about it, it's to talk to the people who've been there.
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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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