Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy, ONZwas 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"...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth21 March 1936
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.
Every writer has to find their own way into writing.
I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.
I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.
I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.
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.
Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.
There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.
I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.
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.
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.
I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?
New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.
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.