List of Margaret Mahy Quotes

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.

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.

A Man Who Builds A House Never Really Dies.

Canadians Are Americans With No Disneyland.

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.

I Hope I Am Not Too Repetitive. However, Coming To Terms With Death Is Part Of The General Human Situation.

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.

You Can't Say You Want Things To Be Simple And Then In The Next Breath Ask Me To Be Honest.

Fear Can Give You Urgent Wings.

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.

Perhaps Every Time Anyone Is Praised It Means That Someone Else Somewhere Is Going To Be Ignored

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.