Michael Morpurgo Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.”
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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.”
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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. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.”
-- Michael MorpurgoSource : "Interview: Michael Morpurgo, Running Wild". Interview With Lisa Bower, www.altblackpool.co.uk. February 27, 2017.
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“It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.”
-- Michael MorpurgoSource : "The class system: Michael Morpurgo's schooldays" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2012.
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“Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.”
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“Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.”
-- Michael MorpurgoSource : "Michael Morpurgo answers your questions". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2011.
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“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 MorpurgoSource : "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.
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“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 MorpurgoSource : "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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“Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.”
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“I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.”
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“I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.”
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“I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.”
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“Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.”
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“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 MorpurgoSource : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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“Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.”
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“As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.”
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“Anything that gets children reading is fine.”
-- Michael MorpurgoSource : "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.
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“Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.”
-- Michael MorpurgoSource : "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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“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.”
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“That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.”
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“I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.”
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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.”
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“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?”
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“I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!”
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“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.”
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“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'.”
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“There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.”
-- Michael Morpurgo
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