Michael Morpurgo Quotes

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• I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've…
• We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art,…
• There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
• Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
• But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.
• Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first…
• Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
• I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
• Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important…
• A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of…
• I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but…
• Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
• It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
• Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories…
• Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians,…
• One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are…
• When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if…
• A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.
• Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

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