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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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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 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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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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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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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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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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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'.
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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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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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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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cause when there's life there's still hope
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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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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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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 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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