Michael Morpurgo quotes - page 3

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book. (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

When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.

Michael Morpurgo

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about - something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.

Michael Morpurgo

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

Michael Morpurgo

To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.

Michael Morpurgo

I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.

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

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

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

Michael Morpurgo

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)

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

Michael Morpurgo

Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.

Michael Morpurgo

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.

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

Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.

Michael Morpurgo

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

Michael Morpurgo

This one isn't just any old horse. 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? I tell you, my friend, there's divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don't belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

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

But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.

Michael Morpurgo

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think. (Michael Morpurgo)

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.

Michael Morpurgo

But I didn't dare. That has always been my trouble. I've never dared enough.

Michael Morpurgo

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

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

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