144 Quotes by Michael Morpurgo

When people make wars, they make refugees.

I can hate you more, but I’ll never love you less.

You know, I really wish now I’d had the nerve to become an actor. Because I’d have been Robert Redford, no question.

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.

Read a lot – poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

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

When you’re young you can’t work out the age of an adult – they’re just quite old, old, or very old.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other.

I write fiction. I make things up, it’s what I do.