English - Author | October 5, 1943 -
When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.
Michael Morpurgo
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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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Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.
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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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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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Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.
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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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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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I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.
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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.
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By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
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