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"People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes" — Margaret Mahy
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"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." — Margaret Mahy
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"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
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"Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are." — Margaret Mahy
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"Every writer has to find their own way into writing." — Margaret Mahy
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"I am not recommending this sort of experience, but I think that in writing this particular story I was remembering the quality of it all." — Margaret Mahy
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"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." — Margaret Mahy
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"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
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"I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation." — Margaret Mahy
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"I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been." — Margaret Mahy
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"I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me." — Margaret Mahy
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"I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing." — Margaret Mahy
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"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." — Margaret Mahy
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"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
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"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
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"In a way, the characters often do take over." — Margaret Mahy
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"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." — Margaret Mahy
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"It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books." — Margaret Mahy
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"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." — Margaret Mahy
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"New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications." — Margaret Mahy
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"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." — Margaret Mahy
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