Michael Morpurgo Quotes - Page 3

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• Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Brother, Real, Shadow

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Teacher, Children, Moving

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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 in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

  Michael Morpurgo

  War, Fighting, People

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• We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.

  Michael Morpurgo

  May, Bees, Sticks

  Michael Morpurgo (2004). “Private Peaceful”, HarperCollins Children's Books

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• 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.

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• A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Memories, Real, Historical

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Eye, Knowing, Ears

  Michael Morpurgo (2011). “Farm Boy”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to see me as I am to see him. There he goes. I can hear him still, scurrying about somewhere under the hayrick. I think he's gone now. I hope he comes back. I miss him already.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Thinking, Light, Somewhere Under

  Michael Morpurgo (2014). “Private Peaceful”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

  Michael Morpurgo

  I've Learned, This Life, Ifs

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• If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Summer, Nightmare, Middle

  Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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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• It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Beautiful, Morning, Kings

  Michael Morpurgo (2014). “Private Peaceful”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.

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• I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Christian, Brother, Hero

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• You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Wish, Actors, Nerves

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

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• Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Flying, Kneeling, Firsts

  Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

  Michael Morpurgo

  War, Focus, Suffering

  "Michael Morpurgo on writing Letter for Carlos". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2012.

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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 God-made.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Believe, Men, Earth

  Michael Morpurgo (2004). “Private Peaceful”, HarperCollins Children's Books

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• Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Reading, School

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

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• I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Knowing, Stories, Wells

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