Citas de Margaret Mahy

• 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.

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  Fashion, Book, Community

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• Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

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  Escribir, Camino

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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.

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  People, Dishes, Truth And Love

  Margaret Mahy (2002). “The Catalogue of the Universe”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Te cambia para siempre, pero de todos modos estás cambiando para siempre.

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

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  Jobs, Work, Best Effort

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• Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.

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  Reading, Writing, Creative

  Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. November 1, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Escritura, Ideas, Personas

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

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  Country, Writing, Sometimes

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

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  Love, Monsters, Stills

  Margaret Mahy (2007). “Maddigan's Fantasia”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• In a way, the characters often do take over.

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  Character, Way

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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.

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  Book, Thinking, Two

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• When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

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  Reading, Ideas, Done

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

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  Want, Next, Happens

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• 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.

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  Funny, Children, Writing

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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.

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  Niños, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• Cuando la vida ordinaria volvía a imponerse, sentía que ya había vivido durante un tiempo en alguna otra vida, que incluso me había apoderado de la vida de otra persona.

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  Taken, Ordinary, Lifetime

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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.

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  Children, Writing, Long

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

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  Simple, Want, Next

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

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  Unbearable, Bears, Spite

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• Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

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  Mean, Ignored

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• I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

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  Attitude, Believe, Writing

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• Conviene saber qué editoriales publican qué cuentos. Por ejemplo, no tiene sentido enviar un texto de álbum ilustrado a una editorial que no publica álbumes ilustrados.

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  Book, Ideas, Example

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• There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

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  Two, People, Suffering

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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.

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  Thinking, Games, Ideas

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• Últimamente estoy muy atado al ordenador, así que trabajo en mi dormitorio, una habitación en la que he trabajado durante años y años. Es tanto una oficina como un dormitorio y, durante el día, mi cama es como una extensión de mi escritorio.

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  Years, Office, Bed

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