Mary Downing Hahn

Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after…

— Mary Downing Hahn

here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The…

— Mary Downing Hahn

I was a coward. I'm still such a coward.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds,…

— Mary Downing Hahn

“Stu asked me to marry him”

— Mary Downing Hahn

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

— Mary Downing Hahn

“WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!”

— Mary Downing Hahn

There are a lot of reasons to doubt things.

— Mary Downing Hahn

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think…

— Mary Downing Hahn

“As she said, our talents made us different from other people, but not strange.”

— Mary Downing Hahn

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I was terrified of funerals.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

— Mary Downing Hahn

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

— Mary Downing Hahn

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

— Mary Downing Hahn

The rules are very strict...

— Mary Downing Hahn

“Here, there, everywhere”

— Mary Downing Hahn

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

— Mary Downing Hahn

“The lake's deep...and dark...and dangerous.”

— Mary Downing Hahn

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

— Mary Downing Hahn