Quotes by Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy

a man who builds a house never really dies.

Architecture

House

Men

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.

Book

Community

Fashion

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.

Book

Thinking

Two

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.

Adults

Children

Stage

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.

Different

Reading

Writing

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.

Lifetime

Ordinary

Taken

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

Canada

Disneyland

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.

Flirting

Mean

Thinking

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

Way

Writing

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

Battle

Might

Murder

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Adults

Architecture

Attitude

Battle

Bears

Beast

Bed

Believe

Best Effort

Book

Buying Things

Canada

Character

Children

Community

Country

Creative

Differences

Different

Dishes

Disneyland

Done

Everyday

Example

Fashion

Fear

Fighter

Fighting

Flirting

Friendship

Funny

Games

Giving

Happens

House

Humans

Ideas

Ignored

Jobs

Librarian

Lifetime

Long

Love

Mean

Men

Might

Mind

Monsters

Mother

Murder

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Quotes by Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy

a man who builds a house never really dies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

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.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

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

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