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I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.

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
Michael Andrew Bridge
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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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 think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
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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'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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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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I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
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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 write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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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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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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