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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.
Michael Morpurgo
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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
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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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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
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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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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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Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
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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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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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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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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.
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I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
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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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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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