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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.
— Michael Morpurgo
Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
— Michael Morpurgo
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
Anything that gets children reading is fine.
— Michael Morpurgo
I think I have always had a strong sense of justice, of fair play, of what is right and what is wrong.
— Michael Morpurgo
I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.
— Celine Buckens
If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.
— Michael Morpurgo
Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.
— Michael Morpurgo
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
— Michael Morpurgo
our home should be an oasis of peace and harmony for us in a troubled world,
— Michael Morpurgo
I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
— Michael Morpurgo
We fought back with our music; it was the only weapon we had.
— Michael Morpurgo
Secrets are lies by another name.
— Michael Morpurgo
He laughed to himself he said because if he did not laugh he would cry.
— Michael Morpurgo
There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
— Michael Morpurgo
Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.
— Michael Morpurgo
I must survive. I have promises to keep.
— Michael Morpurgo
Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.
— Michael Morpurgo
Why does this war have to destroy anything and everything that's fine and beautiful?
— Michael Morpurgo
Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
— Michael Morpurgo
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.
— Michael Morpurgo
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.
— Michael Morpurgo
Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
— Michael Morpurgo
When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.
— Michael Morpurgo
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
— Michael Morpurgo
I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.
— Michael Morpurgo
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
— Michael Morpurgo
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.
— Michael Morpurgo
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.
— Michael Morpurgo
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.
— Michael Morpurgo
Even then, as I stood there, that first morning, filled with apprehension at the terrifying implications of my dreadful situation,
— Michael Morpurgo
When people make wars, they make refugees.
— Michael Morpurgo
Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
— Michael Morpurgo
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.
— Michael Morpurgo
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
After this night is over, then you can drift away, they you can sleep for ever, for nothing will ever matter again.
— Michael Morpurgo
I tried to smile back, but no smile came, only tears.
— Michael Morpurgo
But I didn't dare. That has always been my trouble. I've never dared enough.
— Michael Morpurgo
She was looking out of the window
— Michael Morpurgo
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?
— Michael Morpurgo
I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
— Michael Morpurgo
Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.
— Michael Morpurgo
It's no good wishing for the impossible. Don't wish. Remember. Remembrances are real.
— Michael Morpurgo
But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.
— Michael Morpurgo
I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
— Michael Morpurgo
It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
— Michael Morpurgo
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.
— Michael Morpurgo
Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living. -Kensuke
— Michael Morpurgo
If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.
— Michael Morpurgo
If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
— Michael Morpurgo
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
— Michael Morpurgo
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
— Michael Morpurgo
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
— Michael Morpurgo
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
— Michael Morpurgo
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
Good experiences give us happiness but bad experiences teach us good lessons
— Michael Morpurgo
cause when there's life there's still hope
— Michael Morpurgo
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
— Michael Morpurgo
Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions
— Michael Morpurgo
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
I am a story as well as a happening, and I want my story to be known,
— Michael Morpurgo
I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
— Michael Morpurgo
he's a fine, fine horse,
— Michael Morpurgo
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
