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Writing Quotes by Margaret Mahy
- 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.…
- Every writer has to find their own way into writing.
- 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…
- I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.
- Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and,…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov