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Books Quotes by Michael Morpurgo
- 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,…
- Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
- 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…
- stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions
- Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might…
- When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they…
- Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
More Books Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine