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The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and 'Downton' just flies past, when it's completely made up.


Michael Hirst

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MICHAEL SCHENKER I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both w...
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MICHAEL ASTON Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and mo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o...
MICHAEL MORPURGO War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want peo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for tr...
MICHAEL MORPURGO We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really...
MICHAEL MORPURGO By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to...
MICHAEL MORPURGO To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.
MICHAEL MORPURGO Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write...
MICHAEL MORPURGO One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeedi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
MICHAEL MORPURGO The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
MICHAEL MORPURGO It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you wi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a schoo...
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