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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. "
Michael Morpurgo
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You
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" Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. "
Michael Morpurgo
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Money
" Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. "
Michael Morpurgo
Took
Me
Key
" Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?' "
Michael Morpurgo
You
Wife
War
" 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. "
Michael Morpurgo
People
Eyes
World
" 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
Still
Years
Fine
" 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
Underestimate
Time
Stand
" 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
Focus
Flow
" I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do. "
Michael Morpurgo
Up
Write
Fiction
" 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. "
Michael Morpurgo
Fear
Education
Children
" Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised. "
Michael Morpurgo
Will
Books
You
" 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 Morpurgo
Future
Children
Best
" 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 Morpurgo
Heart
Sun
Morning
" 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
Try
You
Feel
" I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it. "
Michael Morpurgo
Doing
Stories
Head
" Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us. "
Michael Morpurgo
Touch
Best
Eyes
" I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more. "
Michael Morpurgo
Want
More
Writer
" Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult. "
Michael Morpurgo
Difficult
Isolation
Think
" Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today. "
Michael Morpurgo
Past
Teach
Decisions
" 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. "
Michael Morpurgo
More
Focus
Great
" Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world. "
Michael Morpurgo
World
Should
Kids
" 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
Children
Funny
Love
" Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. "
Michael Morpurgo
Pet
Animals
Care
" 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
War
Want
" 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 Morpurgo
Love
Children
Loving
" 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. "
Michael Morpurgo
Fall
Reading
Great
" Anything that gets children reading is fine. "
Michael Morpurgo
Fine
Children
Anything
" If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it. "
Michael Morpurgo
Story
Writing
You
" 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
Elephant
Best
Child
" When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words. "
Michael Morpurgo
Music
Mother
Bed
" 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. "
Michael Morpurgo
Page
Writing
Best