"Every writer has to find their own way…" — Margaret Mahy
"Every writer has to find their own way into writing."
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40 Quotes by Margaret Mahy
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I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I…
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When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother…
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Fear can give you urgent wings.
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Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I…
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Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands,…
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Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen…
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My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is…
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Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored
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Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of…
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I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway -…
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When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has…
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It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending…
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More Every Writer Quotes
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
— John le Carre
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly…
— Leo Rosten
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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and…
— Julian Coolidge
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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection;…
— Thornton Wilder
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You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time…
— Samuel Johnson
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Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
— John Scalzi
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Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a…
— Peter Straub
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It is called working your ass off. The difference is what you are willing to sacrifice. For every writer who…
— Mark Cuban
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It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I…
— Trey Parker
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and…
— Edward Abbey
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Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things…
— Holly Lisle
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