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
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
Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says… — 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
The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's… — 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
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
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
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
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
You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place… — 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
