When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

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• Margaret Mahy:

  When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When

• Margaret Mahy:

  I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affect

• Margaret Mahy:

  At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinfo

• Margaret Mahy:

  At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are

• Margaret Mahy:

  Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in th

• Margaret Mahy:

  I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story w

• Margaret Mahy:

  Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its

• Margaret Mahy:

  Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny ev

• Margaret Mahy:

  The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of c

• Margaret Mahy:

  I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worke