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Margaret Mahy Biography

Margaret Mahy, ONZ (21 March 1936 – 23 July 2012) 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".

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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.

Character, Vocabulary, Differences, Particular, Use

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

Beast, Said, Stories, Story

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

Abandon, Character, Everyday, Space, Times, Writer

Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.

Fairytales, Latest, Ones, People, Proof Of Love, Sight

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

General, Humans, Part, Repetitive, Situation, Term

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

Love, Monster, Monsters, Stills

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.

Affected, Child, Children, Friendship, Like, Mother

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

Bear, Bears, Know, Spite, Things, Unbearable

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

Simple, Want, Next, Breath, Say

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.

Years, Office, Bed, Bedroom, Room

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

Writing, Ideas, People, Advice, Written, Good

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, Reinforcing, Sort, Think, Thinking, Two

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

Way, Writer, Writing

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

Funny, Children, Writing, Use, Older, Stories

I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.

Die, Happens, Interested, Keep, Next, Want

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

Battle, Family, Might, Murder, Sudden

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.

Children, Long, Support, Time, 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.

Already, Lifetime, Lived, Ordinary, Taken

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.

Book, Writing, Librarian, Course, Correcting

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

Best Effort, Jobs, Twice, Work, Worth

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