Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — 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
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
To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times. — 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
I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or… — 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
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
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
I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon… — 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… — 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
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
Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that… — 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
Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting.… — 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
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of… — 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 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
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
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
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
