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Margaret Mahy
 
Date of birth: 21 March 1936
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: New Zealand
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" A young adult can get a driving license at the age of 15 in New Zealand, and if I describe a 15-year-old legitimately driving, people in some other countries think I made a mistake. Editors then insist that I explain the driving license situation instead of simply taking it for granted. "

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. "

Margaret Mahy
" At one stage, time stops for Ellis, the hero of 24 HOURS. This is partly because he's been drinking but also because of the strange circumstances in which he finds himself. "

Margaret Mahy
" 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. "

Margaret Mahy
" At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young. "

Margaret Mahy
" Behind me, as I work answering these questions, stands a filing cabinet and shelves and shelves of books; there are books piled on the floor beside the chairs. On my left is the printer. "

Margaret Mahy
" Behind my computer there is a long thin window, and the window sill is crowded with photographs of my two daughters and their children. "

Margaret Mahy
" Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. "

Margaret Mahy
" 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
" Ellis's understanding is advanced, and art (in his case, his acting) becomes something more than an abstract exercise like something flatly pinned to a page or a wall or acted out on a stage. His acting becomes part of real life something he can use. "

Margaret Mahy
" 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
" Every writer has to find their own way into writing. "

Margaret Mahy
" He feels as if he has entered a timeless state. However, time does not stop for the reader, who is continually reminded that it is flowing implacably on. "

Margaret Mahy
" 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. "

Margaret Mahy
" 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. "

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