#ate

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#another #anyway #been #certainly #complicated

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #change #characters #develop #happen

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 other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#course #decided #earn #evenings #had

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. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#characters #experience #imaginary #imaginary characters #imagination

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#could #done #down #find #good

I hate everything which is not in myself. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#hate #i #myself #which

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. ↗

— Errico Malatesta

#people #themselves #want

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#good #good idea #idea #into #latest

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#consciousness #even #exacerbate #final #intensify

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. ↗

— John Major

#conceived #father #i #late #mother