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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.

Michael Morpurgo

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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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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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Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
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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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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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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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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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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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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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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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I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
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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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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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I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
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