Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large dont try to trip you up… they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do… if theyve loved a story they love to know how it started. – Michael Morpurgo
Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never – pleasurable. – Michael Morpurgo
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 childrens right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future. – Michael Morpurgo
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the pity of war as Wilfred Owen called it. – Michael Morpurgo