144 Quotes by Michael Morpurgo

It is so beautiful but home is home, and home is best.

You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea.

Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.

Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

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.

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

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.

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.