There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
Michael MorpurgoYou know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
Michael MorpurgoI spend months, sometimes years, doing what I call dreamtime, weaving it together inside my head. But when I actually feel that the egg of my story is ready to hatch, then I can write it in three months. Then I know the landscape and the people well and from the inside, but I don't necessarily know where the story is going to take us.
Michael MorpurgoLike most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.
Michael Morpurgo