Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When I sit down I write very fast ... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well.
Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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.
I think I have always had a strong sense of justice, of fair play, of what is right and what is wrong.
If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.
Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.
Tonight, I want very much to believe that there's a heaven, that death is not a full stop, and that we will all see one another again.
that was the only way of keeping our hopes alive, by looking beyond all we were seeing around us, and the shadow of disaster that hung over us.
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!
When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.
I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.
And then quite suddenly I found that I had no rider, that I had no weight on my back, and that I was alone out in front of the squadron.
By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
Even then, as I stood there, that first morning, filled with apprehension at the terrifying implications of my dreadful situation,
When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.
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.
After this night is over, then you can drift away, they you can sleep for ever, for nothing will ever matter again.
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.
The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.
If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
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.