Michael Morpurgo Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Michael Morpurgo

  Money, Book, Writing

• Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Encouraging, Art, Drama

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

• 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

• 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.

• When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Friendship, Writing, Trying

  "Michael Morpurgo's top writing tips" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2012.

• Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Notebook, Silly, Writing

  "Michael Morpurgo's five top tips for writing" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2011.

• We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Football, Art, Memories

• 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

• I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Writing, Fiction

• 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

• Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

  Michael Morpurgo

  Writing, Voice, Giving

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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 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

• 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

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