144 Quotes by Michael Morpurgo

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

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.

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.

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

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.

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