"A notion for a story is for me……" — Michael Morpurgo
"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."
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70 Quotes by Michael Morpurgo
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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…
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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether…
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There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.
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Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I…
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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not…
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Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than…
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A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you…
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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because…
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Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I…
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People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.
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Im very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a…
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Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and…
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Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that…
— Patricia Barber
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By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic…
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Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore…
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Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some…
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I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After…
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I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a…
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It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will…
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I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence,…
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