Michael Morpurgo Quotes

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

~ Michael Morpurgo

cause when there's life there's still hope

~ 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

...that we should look out of the window, choose a star, and make a last wish before we went to sleep, and she told us we should wish the best, not just for each of ourselves, but more for each other, because we were all the best of friends.

~ Michael Morpurgo

Magic obeys only the heart of the one who uses it. Your magic would always be a kind magic, because you are kind, I can tell. Please stay and help us.

~ Michael Morpurgo

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

~ Michael Morpurgo

You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no one to talk to.

~ Michael Morpurgo

But look after yourself - there will be great dangers on the way. Remember, the right road is never the easy road.

~ Michael Morpurgo

Secrets are lies by another name.

~ Michael Morpurgo

When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you. That very sad thing for her. Maybe she come looking, and she not find you. You not there when she come. She think you dead for ever. But she see you in her mind. Now as I speak maybe she see you in her mind. You always there. I know. I have son too. I have Michiya. He always in my head. Like Kimi. They dead for sure, but they in my head. They in my head forever.

~ Michael Morpurgo

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

~ Michael Morpurgo

We fought back with our music, it was the only weapon we had.

~ Michael Morpurgo

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

~ Michael Morpurgo

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

~ 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 sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.

~ Michael Morpurgo

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.

~ Michael Morpurgo

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

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

~ Michael Morpurgo

Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'

~ Michael Morpurgo

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

~ Michael Morpurgo

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

~ Michael Morpurgo

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

~ Michael Morpurgo

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

~ Michael Morpurgo

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.

~ Michael Morpurgo

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

~ Michael Morpurgo

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.

~ Michael Morpurgo