“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. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.” KnowsHeartEndsStoriesLightDifficultDarkMorningSunReaderRedemptionThemeTake MeOptimistHappy EndingsTunnels Author:Michael Morpurgo
“Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.” KnowsFirstsChildrenTwoBookCountryKidsReadingParentStepsTeacherHabitEncouragementOur ChildrenAccessTwo ThingsLibrarianHoping For The BestHope For The Future Author:Michael Morpurgo
“You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.” KnowsHas BeensActorsWishNerves Author:Michael Morpurgo
“Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.” KnowsWorldWantChildrenSometimesProblemLiteratureDifficultDarkHorrorAdultsPressesComplexesEntertainingButtons Author:Michael Morpurgo
“There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.” KnowsWritingChildrenBookLightGeniusEasierMythWriting A BookGreat BookWonderlandGrownupsChildren BookNorthern Lights Author: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.” KnowsWellsWarHomeKnownFinishedGet BackBack HomeLike HerJoey Author: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.” KnowsTryingMightDo You KnowPastries Book:War Horse Source: War Horse
“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!” KnowsMenDoeSaidDifferentWarReasonFightingSpeakLanguageCrazyOne DayMy FriendsMadReason WhyColourOne ManSaneUniformsDifferent LanguagesDifferent Colours Book:War Horse Source: War Horse
“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'.” KnowsFeelsWritingLittlesArtI CanMatterStuffCan DoMemoriesChildhoodFieldsFootballOur ChildrenTriumphHockeyI Can Do ThisFootball FieldGreat Memories Author:Michael Morpurgo
