Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions. Michael Morpurgo More Quotes by Michael Morpurgo More Quotes From Michael Morpurgo Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable. Michael Morpurgo cleansing admitting 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 married young years It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us. Michael Morpurgo kings morning beautiful 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 like-her home war We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike. Michael Morpurgo sticks bees may There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to see me as I am to see him. There he goes. I can hear him still, scurrying about somewhere under the hayrick. I think he's gone now. I hope he comes back. I miss him already. Michael Morpurgo somewhere-under light thinking 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 writing book children 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 brother hero christian You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question. Michael Morpurgo nerves actors wish Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them. Michael Morpurgo kneeling flying firsts 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 voice writing giving 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 earth men believe Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight. Michael Morpurgo fighting war people 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 focus suffering war I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful. Michael Morpurgo study book thinking My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy. Michael Morpurgo matter feelings thinking 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 words me focus school 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 you pain love life 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 understand change war people 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 better think father way
