“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.” ThinkingFeelsWritingTryingStoriesJourneyReaderPages Author:Michael Morpurgo
“When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.” IfsWritingTryingPersonsFriendshipForgetPagesMy Best Friend 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
“This one isn’t just any old horse. 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? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.” MenTryingDoeWarEyeUniverseMiddleCreaturesFindingsMy FriendsHorseHis EyesDivinityButterflySerenityNobilityFilthyAbominationRegal Author:Michael Morpurgo
“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?” MenTryingDoeEyeHis EyesSerenityNobilityRegalWar Horse Book:War Horse Source: War Horse