Margaret Mahy ,quotes

By the time ordinary life asse...

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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I don't think I prefer writing...

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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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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I hope I am not too repetitive...

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

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I think I am too interested in...

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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I was able to work out all sor...

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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In a way, the characters often...

In a way, the characters often do take over.

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It can certainly happen that c...

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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There are certainly times when...

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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When you are writing, of cours...

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.

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Of course there are big differ...

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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The novels take longer to writ...

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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New Zealand is the only countr...

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

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Fear can give you urgent wings...

Fear can give you urgent wings.

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Being a librarian certainly he...

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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Anyone interested in the world...

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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Try not to become disappointed...

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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My theory is that I decided to...

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.

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Perhaps every time anyone is p...

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...

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

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