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Margaret Mahy

You can't say you want things...

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

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Margaret Mahy

By the time ordinary life ass...

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

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Margaret Mahy

There are certainly times whe...

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.

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Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly h...

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.

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Margaret Mahy

At the same time, I think boo...

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.

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Margaret Mahy

When you are reading, someone...

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.

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Margaret Mahy

I think I am too interested i...

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.

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Margaret Mahy

I once knew a house rather li...

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.

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Margaret Mahy

I had to wait for a long time...

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.

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Margaret Mahy

Anyone interested in the worl...

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.

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Margaret Mahy

The novels take longer to wri...

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 story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.

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Margaret Mahy

When I was a child I had a be...

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

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Margaret Mahy

At this stage I am not involv...

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

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Margaret Mahy

Ellis's understanding of hims...

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.

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Margaret Mahy

It can certainly happen that ...

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

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Margaret Mahy

Writing for young children I ...

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 stories for older children too.

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Margaret Mahy

Of course there are big diffe...

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

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Margaret Mahy

I don't think I prefer writin...

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.

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Margaret Mahy

I was able to work out all so...

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 think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

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Margaret Mahy

There are always two people i...

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

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