I 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 MorpurgoEveryone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.
Michael MorpurgoIt is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
Michael MorpurgoThis one isnโt just any old horse. Thereโs a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, thereโs divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We donโt belong in the same universe as a creature like this.
Michael Morpurgo