Michael Morpurgo Quotes

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There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

Michael Morpurgo
If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.

Michael Morpurgo
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.

Michael Morpurgo
Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

Michael Morpurgo
That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.

Michael Morpurgo
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.

Michael Morpurgo
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.

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

Michael Morpurgo
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.

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

Michael Morpurgo
I tell you, my friends,' he said one day. 'I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It's the others that are mad, but they don't know it. They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it's me they call mad!

Michael Morpurgo
There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to see me as I am to see him. There he goes. I can hear him still, scurrying about somewhere under the hayrick. I think he's gone now. I hope he comes back. I miss him already.

Michael Morpurgo
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.

Michael Morpurgo
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.

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

Michael Morpurgo