Writer Quotes by Michael Morpurgo

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

— Michael Morpurgo

To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.

— Michael Morpurgo

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

— Michael Morpurgo

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

— Michael Morpurgo

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

— Michael Morpurgo

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

— Michael Morpurgo

Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It…

— Michael Morpurgo

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

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

— Michael Morpurgo

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

— Michael Morpurgo

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

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

— Michael Morpurgo

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

— Michael Morpurgo

Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.

— Michael Morpurgo

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

The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit…

— Michael Morpurgo

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

I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to…

— Michael Morpurgo

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was…

— Michael Morpurgo

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a…

— Michael Morpurgo

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

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great…

— Michael Morpurgo

I spend months, sometimes years, doing what I call dreamtime, weaving it together inside my head. But when I actually feel that…

— Michael Morpurgo

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

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job…

— Michael Morpurgo

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or…

— Michael Morpurgo

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that…

— Michael Morpurgo