Margaret Mahy Quotes

In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

So what did influence 'Bird Box?' Well, I've had a crush on Medusa since about 1985. Maybe the book is an ode to her.

My writing is a product of how I would interact with things that have happened to me or things that have not happened to me but have happened to somebody else.

Historically, sci-fi movies have played an important role in inspiring young people.

I'm all about being a role model to kids. I enjoy doing it, and I like putting smiles on kids' faces.

The kids are our future.

I love writing about young people.

'The Brownies and the Goblins' is the only book I recall from my early childhood and is the inspiration for a children's book I wrote in the 1980s titled 'The Magic Spectacles.'

The young guys keep me motivated. Youngsters coming up behind me.

I love kids a lot. I love to spend time with them. They give me the energy to live, and I would love to bring a smile on their faces.

Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are two of my favorite writers; they're the kind of writers who make you feel like, 'I can do this. I want to do this.'

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

youth is a marvelous garment

I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other.

don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.

If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.

The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.