Margaret Mahy Quotes

Margaret Mahy — New Zealander Author born on March 21, 1936,

Margaret Mahy, ONZ was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At her death she was one of thirty writers to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her "lasting contribution to children's literature"... (wikipedia)

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

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.

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

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

Margaret Mahy Quotes

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