Michael Morpurgo Quotes

I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 5, 1943

Topics

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Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

Robert Gottlieb

YourselfBookYouSometimesKind

Without money honor is merely a disease.

Jean Racine

MoneyHonorWithoutDiseaseMerely

We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing covers live until we started goofing off a little bit more on stage.

Johnny Christ

LiveKindMoreNeverSoundStage

I like to prove things wrong.

Mickey Drexler

WrongProveThingsLike

Only two things change when you get older: the energy in your voice and the time of night you feel it's appropriate to call someone. In your 20s, people call at 2 a.m. and yell, 'Are you up?' into the answering machine. Now, someone calls after 8 p.m., and my boyfriend is like, 'Who is that? Who could be calling at this hour?'

Michael Patrick King

ChangeTimePeopleNightEnergyYou

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

Miranda Hart

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When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

Lou Brock

ProblemBedAnimalsLegsKidUsed

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

Lou Brock

GreaterMessagePenaltySent

Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.

Juanes

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The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Jorge Luis Borges

WorkFuturePastCreateJustFact

Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.

Diego Luna

TimeHotelYouFeelingGardenGet

When I first started snowboarding, my dad pretty much dragged me into it. I wasn't old enough to be like, 'Oh, I wanna snowboard!' you know?

Chloe Kim

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