"With reading, I was very lucky. I had……" — Michael Morpurgo
"With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book."
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Michael Morpurgo
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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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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same…
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I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back…
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival…
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to…
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
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