48+ Michael Morpurgo Quotes On Reading, Writing And Heartfelt

Michael Morpurgo is a British author of children's books. He is best known for his novel War Horse, which was adapted into a successful stage play and a feature film. He has written over 150 books and won numerous awards, including the Whitbread Award and the Smarties Prize. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Michael Morpurgo on reading, writing, heartfelt.

Top 10 Michael Morpurgo Quotes

1. Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
2. 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.
3. There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
4. Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
5. Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
6. Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
7. I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
8. Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.
9. Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.
10. Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

Michael Morpurgo Short Quotes

• We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
• I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
• But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.
• There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
• I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
• If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
• Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
• cause when there's life there's still hope

Michael Morpurgo Quotes About Writing

We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'. — Michael Morpurgo

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

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not. — Michael Morpurgo

For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers. — Michael Morpurgo

I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice and the confidence to tell it? We lack the encouragement as young people to believe this; we very often think that writing is for clever people, which it isn't. — Michael Morpurgo

What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig. — Michael Morpurgo

I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page. — Michael Morpurgo

Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child. — Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo Famous Quotes And Sayings

Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful thing because it opens the door to a life-long experience, a life-long enjoyment. — Michael Morpurgo

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made. — Michael Morpurgo

But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better. — Michael Morpurgo

But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one. — Michael Morpurgo

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned. — Michael Morpurgo

Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important. — Michael Morpurgo

We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike. — Michael Morpurgo

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight. — Michael Morpurgo

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

Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it. — Michael Morpurgo

That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand. — Michael Morpurgo

My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy. — Michael Morpurgo

Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is not to read a book about it, or see a movie about it, it's to talk to the people who've been there. — Michael Morpurgo

I think people are more in contact now with the consequences of war than they've been for a very long time. And that's what amazes me when sometimes politicians seem to forget their history. They don't look and re-learn about what has happened before. Maybe they haven't got the memory, maybe they're already too young, but you can see how we become puffed up, and how we as a nation rise so quickly if we're not careful. — Michael Morpurgo

There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to see me as I am to see him. There he goes. I can hear him still, scurrying about somewhere under the hayrick. I think he's gone now. I hope he comes back. I miss him already. — Michael Morpurgo

It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us. — Michael Morpurgo

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing. — Michael Morpurgo

I spend months, sometimes years, doing what I call dreamtime, weaving it together inside my head. But when I actually feel that the egg of my story is ready to hatch, then I can write it in three months. Then I know the landscape and the people well and from the inside, but I don't necessarily know where the story is going to take us. — Michael Morpurgo

That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune. — Michael Morpurgo

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. — Michael Morpurgo

I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad! — Michael Morpurgo

If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer. — Michael Morpurgo

Life Lessons by Michael Morpurgo

1. Michael Morpurgo teaches us to appreciate the beauty of nature, to be kind and compassionate to all living things, and to never give up hope in the face of adversity.
2. He encourages us to think deeply about the consequences of our actions, to be brave and stand up for what we believe in, and to appreciate the power of storytelling.
3. Through his work, he reminds us that the world is a complex place, and that it is up to us to make it a better one.