English - Author | October 5, 1943 -
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
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Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
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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.
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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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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.
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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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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.
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To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.
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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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I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.
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I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.
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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.
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