Quotes from Michael Morpurgo

To me soldiers had appeared to become younger as the war went on, and Rudy was no exception to this [...]. And like so many of them now he looked, without his helmet, like a child dressed up as a soldier.

You need people like Marty just to keep you going.

She was looking out of the window The Butterfly Lion

I would set out on a quest, a quest I could achieve without ever leaving

Oranges and Lemons, say the bells of St. Clements, You owe me five farthings, say the bells of St. Martins. When will you pay me? say the bells of Old Bailey. When I grow rich, say the bells of Shoreditch. When will that be? say the bells of Stepney. I'm sure I don't know, says the great bell at Bow. Here comes a candle to light you to bed, And here comes a chopper to chop off your head.

It's strictly out of bounds.

Any horse has an instinctive fondness for children, for they speak more softly, and their size precludes any threat;

She loved singing—and soccer

He believed that we live on only as long as our story is told. I believe that too.

I think I was born to sail, and I mean that. So when I set off on my great sailing adventure, it was because I wanted to do it.

I seem to have forgotten as much as I've remembered. It's as if time itself has taken its time during my childhood, but once I got off that bus in Sydney it picked up speed, and from then on it was a roller coaster of a ride, and a bumpy one too, that brought me from then to now, leaving me with only fleeting moments of clarity, the highs and the lows, with so much in between, but lost to me for ever.

We listened agog, because she was a wonderful storyteller. She could paint pictures in your head with words, and she could touch the heart of you too.

Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still.

Time gathers speed as we get older. Life flashes by all too fast, and is over all too soon.

Arthur Hobhouse is a happening. I've been a happening for sixty five years, or thereabouts, and the time has come now for me to put my life down on paper. For me this will be the birth certificate I never had. It's to prove to me and to anyone else who reads it that at least I was here, that I happened.

I should start at the beginning, I know that. But the trouble is that I don't know the beginning. I wish I did.

Life is not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living.

Well farmer,' said the officer, nodding his appreciation as he looked me over.

Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

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.

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.

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.'

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.