A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. — 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
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 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
When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology. — 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
Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in… — 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
Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world. — 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 Image
“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 Image
But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
