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Margaret Mahy quotes

New zealander Author March 21, 1936 – July 23, 2012

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I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me. Margaret Mahy
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language. Margaret Mahy
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. Margaret Mahy
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 for very small children as I do with a story for young adults. Margaret Mahy
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 to be, from the time I was a child. Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy quote: "I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with..."
I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation. 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. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy quote: "It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway."
It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway. Margaret Mahy
My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years. Margaret Mahy
Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are. Margaret Mahy
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared. Margaret Mahy
I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another. Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy quote: "I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing."
I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing. Margaret Mahy
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 that I would know about a wide range of books. Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy quote: "It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the..."
It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker. Margaret Mahy

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