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Margaret Mahy Quotes

Fear can give you urgent wings Picture Quote #1

If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing twice Picture Quote #1

I’ve never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I’m not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another Picture Quote #1

Anyone interested in the world generally can’t help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language Picture Quote #1

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book Picture Quote #1

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications Picture Quote #1

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I once knew a house rather like the Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been Picture Quote #1

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader’s mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction Picture Quote #1

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people Picture Quote #1

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them Picture Quote #1

A man who builds a house never really dies Picture Quote #1

Will you still love me when I’m a monster? Picture Quote #1

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It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway Picture Quote #1

Every writer has to find their own way into writing Picture Quote #1

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing Picture Quote #1

In a way, the characters often do take over Picture Quote #1

Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death Picture Quote #1

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation Picture Quote #1

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When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared Picture Quote #1

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too Picture Quote #1

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act Picture Quote #1

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk Picture Quote #1

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books Picture Quote #1

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books Picture Quote #1

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Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them Picture Quote #1

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original Picture Quote #1

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child Picture Quote #1

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else’s life Picture Quote #1

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young Picture Quote #1

You can’t say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest Picture Quote #1

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Fear can give you urgent wings (Margaret Mahy Quotes) If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing twice (Margaret Mahy Quotes) I’ve never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I’m not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another. (Margaret Mahy Quotes) Anyone interested in the world generally can’t help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language. (Margaret Mahy Quotes) The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book (Margaret Mahy Quotes) New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications (Margaret Mahy Quotes) I once knew a house rather like the Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been (Margaret Mahy Quotes) At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader’s mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction (Margaret Mahy Quotes) They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people (Margaret Mahy Quotes) I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them (Margaret Mahy Quotes) A man who builds a house never really dies (Margaret Mahy Quotes) Will you still love me when I’m a monster? (Margaret Mahy Quotes) It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway (Margaret Mahy Quotes) Every writer has to find their own way into writing (Margaret Mahy Quotes) I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing (Margaret Mahy Quotes) In a way, the characters often do take over (Margaret Mahy Quotes) Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death (Margaret Mahy Quotes) I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation (Margaret Mahy Quotes) When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared (Margaret Mahy Quotes) Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too (Margaret Mahy Quotes) Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act (Margaret Mahy Quotes) I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk (Margaret Mahy Quotes) It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books (Margaret Mahy Quotes) When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books (Margaret Mahy Quotes) Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them (Margaret Mahy Quotes) I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original (Margaret Mahy Quotes) I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child (Margaret Mahy Quotes) By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else’s life (Margaret Mahy Quotes) At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young (Margaret Mahy Quotes) You can’t say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest (Margaret Mahy Quotes)

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