To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
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.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I spend months, sometimes years, doing what I call dreamtime, weaving it together inside my head. But when I actually feel that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
“Father was always getting into scrapes when he was a lad. But the worst scrape he ever hot hisself into was the war, First… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings,… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
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… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
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… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
“After this night is over, then you can drift away, they you can sleep for ever, for nothing will ever matter again.” — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share
