"Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't……" — Margaret Mahy
"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, too. They might have good advice."
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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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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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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 Advice Quotes
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
— Sri Aurobindo
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
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The worst men often give the best advice.
— Francis Bacon
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
— Francis Bacon
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
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