"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."
― Margaret Mahy
Topic(s):
Power
More From Margaret Mahy
- "I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Power
- "I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies."― Nik Wallenda
- "Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."― Friedrich Nietzsche
- "I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don’t believe it exists. I’ve felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist."― Thor Heyerdahl