"I was rather a poor student, too easily……" — Michael Morpurgo
"I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more."
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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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