#writing

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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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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I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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Alimony is the curse of the writing class. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. ↗