Latest Michael Morpurgo Quotes from Interviews

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• I spend months, sometimes years, doing what I call dreamtime, weaving it together inside my head. But when I actually feel that the egg of my story is ready to hatch, then I can write it in three months. Then I know the landscape and the people well and from the inside, but I don't necessarily know where the story is going to take us.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Writing, People, Together

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Writing, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice and the confidence to tell it? We lack the encouragement as young people to believe this; we very often think that writing is for clever people, which it isn't.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Encouragement, Clever, Believe

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Dream, Book, Breathing

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

• I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Writing, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

• Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful thing because it opens the door to a life-long experience, a life-long enjoyment.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Art, Children, Doors

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

• Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Mother, Children, Writing

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Heart, Dark, Stories

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

• Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I think people are more in contact now with the consequences of war than they've been for a very long time. And that's what amazes me when sometimes politicians seem to forget their history. They don't look and re-learn about what has happened before. Maybe they haven't got the memory, maybe they're already too young, but you can see how we become puffed up, and how we as a nation rise so quickly if we're not careful.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Memories, War, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Home, Coffins, Flags

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

  Michael Morpurgo

  War, Writing, Political

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is not to read a book about it, or see a movie about it, it's to talk to the people who've been there.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Book, People, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Important, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.

  Michael Morpurgo

  People, Connections, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk