All 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… Bed
- When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like… Across
- Fear can give you urgent wings. Fear
- 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.… Act
- 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… Adult
- Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say,… Advice
- My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that.… Course
- Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored Anyone
- Every writer has to find their own way into writing. Every Writer
- 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… Children
- 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… Been
- 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… Behalf
- 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… Book
- People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes. Dishes
- I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing. Continual
- 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.… Book
- 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… Adult
- 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… Already Lived
- I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well… Adult
- 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… Child
- I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation. Coming
- I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language… All
- 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… Able
- In a way, the characters often do take over. Character
- It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly… Certainly Happen