"Reading is very creative - it's not just……" — Margaret Mahy
"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, by reading it, completes it."
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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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Every writer has to find their own way into writing.
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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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Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as…
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain,…
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that…
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process.…
— Seneca the Younger
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The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better…
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The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
— Unknown Author
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At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what…
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.
— Laozi
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The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.
— Laozi
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