Michael Morpurgo Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”