Michael Morpurgo Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Money, Book, Writing

• 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, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Country, Teacher, Encouragement

  "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

• Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Book, Thinking, Stories

  "Michael Morpurgo's top tips for writing". www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

• Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Dream, Book, Thinking

  "I Believe in Unicorns". Book by Michael Morpurgo, 2005.

• 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 to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Teacher, Children, Book

  "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

• For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Michael Morpurgo (2014). “Private Peaceful”, p.128, Scholastic Inc.

• I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Book, Writing

• Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Book, Kids, World

• Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Book, Character, Keys

• 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

• 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 there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Book, Thinking, Study

  "The ride of his life". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2009.

• 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

• 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 are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

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