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Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
— Michael Morpurgo
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Michael Morpurgo
poet, writer, novelist, playwright, author, children's writer, librettist, illustrator
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Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
All Quotes by Michael Morpurgo
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Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
— Michael Morpurgo
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Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.
— Michael Morpurgo
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Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
— Michael Morpurgo
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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
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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