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Margaret Mahy

I am really chained to my comp...

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.

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Margaret Mahy

I don't want to die, really. I...

I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.

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Margaret Mahy

Family!... You might just as w...

Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.

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Margaret Mahy

I know things are unbearable b...

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

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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

Writing for young children I f...

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

Will you still love me when I'...

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

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Margaret Mahy

I'm the Beast. You're the Beau...

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty,' he said. 'It's all a story, isn't it?

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Margaret Mahy

a man who builds a house never...

a man who builds a house never really dies.

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Margaret Mahy

Canadians are Americans with n...

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

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Margaret Mahy

Do you think that clothes have...

Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.

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Margaret Mahy

Time was too much a part of lo...

Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time ...

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Margaret Mahy

If a job's worth doing, it's w...

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

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Margaret Mahy

There's a lot of things you ca...

There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

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Margaret Mahy

I've never actually been a fig...

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.

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Margaret Mahy

For in some ways the world was...

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

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Margaret Mahy

Reading is very creative - it'...

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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Margaret Mahy

When I was a child I had a bes...

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

It changes you for ever, but y...

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

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Margaret Mahy

There are always two people in...

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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