Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.

Michael Morpurgo

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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Fun
  • Blessed
  • Faces

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Fear
  • Understand
  • Lose

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Pride
  • Gratitude

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Television
  • News
  • Survive

• I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Start

• I am not as simple as I look.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Simple
  • Look

• I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • School
  • Bad
  • High

• Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Drama

• As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Father
  • Perfect

• I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Home
  • Worry
  • New Years

• Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Real
  • Support
  • Challenges

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men

• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • People

• To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Up
  • Job
  • Comedy

• Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Different
  • Singing

• It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

  

  Renee O'Connor
  • Hard
  • Television
  • Perseverance

• McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Business
  • Book
  • Effort

• Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Book
  • Dream
  • Stories