It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

- Margaret Mahy

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

- Margaret Mahy

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

- Margaret Mahy

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

- Margaret Mahy

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. The…

- Margaret Mahy

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

- 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 t…

- Margaret Mahy

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, complete…

- Margaret Mahy

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at oth…

- Margaret Mahy