Quotes by Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear – which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you’ll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

Children

Moving

Teacher

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.

Historical

Memories

Real

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.

Country

Encouragement

Teacher

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never – pleasurable.

Admitting

Cleansing

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

Notebook

Silly

Writing

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Animal

Children

Intelligent

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

Ifs

People

Problem

Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it’s as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question ‘why’? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.

Book

Reading

Thinking

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

Political

War

Writing

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

Children

Fine

Reading

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Admitting

Adults

Advantage

Animal

Art

Attention

Beautiful

Bees

Believe

Book

Breathing

Brother

Butterfly

Causes

Character

Children

Christian

Classroom

Cleansing

Clever

Coffins

Connections

Country

Crazy

Dancing

Dare

Dark

Differences

Doors

Drama

Dream

Ears

Earth

Encouragement

Encouraging

Enough

Eye

Failing

Feelings

Fiction

Fighting

Fine

Firsts

Flags

Flying

Focus

Football

Forgotten

Friendship

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Quotes by Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear – which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you’ll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

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.

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.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never – pleasurable.

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

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