Margaret Mahy Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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

• 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.

  Margaret Mahy

  Children, Adults, Stage

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Margaret Mahy

  Friendship, Mother, Children

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