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Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

~Michael Morpurgo

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If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

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When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

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To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.

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I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.

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I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.

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I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.

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The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.

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You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: October 5th, 1943

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