All Michael Morpurgo Quotes
- Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. Book
- Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise. Children
- Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. Book
- I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it. Ever Knowing
- I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19. Far
- I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful. Book
- I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do. Fiction
- It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology. Adult
- It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always… Always Universal
- Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime.… Develop
- You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question. Actor
- I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen… All
- Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors… Adult
- There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children… Alice
- stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions Ask
- It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be… All
- 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 to… Comes Back
- We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom.… Alike
- Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his… Brother
- But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all… All
- That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy… Advantage
- My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that… Albert
- But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one. Any
- For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find… Always Find
- Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other Any