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" 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

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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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" 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. "

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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! "

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" 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. "

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" The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head. "

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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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" Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world. "

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" You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology. "

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" With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle down and get on with it, and a year later I have my book in my hand. "

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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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" It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it. "

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

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" Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it. "

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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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" 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. "

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" As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short. "

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" 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. "

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