Quotes from Michael Morpurgo

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

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.

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.

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.

After this night is over, then you can drift away, they you can sleep for ever, for nothing will ever matter again.

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

But I didn't dare. That has always been my trouble. I've never dared enough.

I tried to smile back, but no smile came, only tears.

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.

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.