Margaret Mahy Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

  Margaret Mahy

  Writing, Way

• 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.

  Margaret Mahy

  Funny, Children, Writing

• 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.

  Margaret Mahy

  Reading, Writing, Creative

  Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. November 1, 2009.

• I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

  Margaret Mahy

  Reading, Writing, Support

• 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

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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

  Margaret Mahy

  Country, Writing, Sometimes

• 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

  Children, Writing, Long

• 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.

  Margaret Mahy

  Attitude, Believe, Writing

• 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

  Reading, Writing, Different

• 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

  Book, Writing, Librarian

• 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.

  Margaret Mahy

  Writing, Ideas, People

• 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.

  Margaret Mahy

  Book, Writing, Simple

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