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I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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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

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New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#band #clear #clear idea #every #how

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class. ↗

— Jena Malone

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I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. ↗

— David Mamet

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If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs. ↗

— David Mamet

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