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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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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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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
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Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
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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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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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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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There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
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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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Anything that gets children reading is fine.
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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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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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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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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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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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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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