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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
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#Style
#Time
#Voice
#Yourself
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
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#Me
#Memory
#Own
#Real
I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.
- Michael Morpurgo
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#I Can
#Reality
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One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
- Michael Morpurgo
#Education
#Focus
#Great
#Looking
#More
Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.
- Michael Morpurgo
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#Never
#Quite
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
- Michael Morpurgo
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#Exercise
#School
#Simply
#Want
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
- Michael Morpurgo
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#Forever
#People
#Understand
#War
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
- Michael Morpurgo
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#Life
#Live
#Meet
#People
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
#Book
#Children
#Genius
#Great
#Know
I was an overly young father, is the most polite way of putting it. I think I was rather immature and all I can say is that I think I've made a much better grandfather... I don't think I was ready to be a father to be honest.
- Michael Morpurgo
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#Father
#I Can
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#Young
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.
- Michael Morpurgo
#Acting
#Done
#Great
#Serious
#Speak
It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.
- Michael Morpurgo
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#Important
#Me
#School
#Words
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
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#Education
#Future
#Habit
#Hope
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
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#Past
#Political
#Today
#Us
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
- Michael Morpurgo
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#Down
#Ideas
#Keep
#Your
It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
- Michael Morpurgo
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#Difference
#Makes
#Teacher
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. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
- Michael Morpurgo
#Heart
#Hope
#I Am
#Light
#Morning
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
- Michael Morpurgo
#Care
#Children
#Duty
#Funny
#Pet
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