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Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy
New Zealander Author
Born: Mar 21, 1936
Book Me People Think Time Writing
Related authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn C. S. Lewis Frederick Douglass George Orwell Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Zig Ziglar
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
Life Book People Old Young Once Way Though Characters Collection Rather Varied Students Knew Mainly True Like House Smiles Occupied None However Were Been Models May Young People Old House Land
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. Margaret Mahy
Myself Great Me People Complicated Seen Fighter Fighting Other Out Never Another Been Efficient Goes Tires Anyway Certainly Actually
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. Margaret Mahy
Life Time Other Else Once Once More Would Some Someone More Lifetime Had Taken Feel Over Itself Ordinary While Ordinary Life Even Asserted Lived By The Time
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
People World Understanding Ellis Other Recognizing Through Part Development Develops Adventures Him Himself Because Around His Certainly
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people. Margaret Mahy
Experience People Own Imagination Relate Solely Characters Some My Own Variety Since Perhaps Aspects Products Wide Wide Variety Imaginary
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
Work Simple Living Other Earn Late Seven About Writer Writers Had Mainly Like Most Wrote Course Years Very Often Decided Theory Many Evenings Things Night
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. Margaret Mahy
You Yourself Writing Books Range Correcting Librarian Would About Know Course Expected Wide Wide Range
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
Age Writing Young Group Think Pleased Above Small Small Children Adult Feel Well Another Am Very Just Young Adults Children Story Which Age Group Prefer Works
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
Work Day Rather Computer Days Like Bed Am Bedroom Years Years And Years Office Just Just As Much Which Room Worked Much Really Chained Extension Desk
New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications. Margaret Mahy
Sometimes Country Enough Complications About Only Only Country Write Lead New Know Well Well Enough New Zealand Zealand

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