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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.
Michael Morpurgo
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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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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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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
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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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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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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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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'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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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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I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
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