Margaret Haddix Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.”
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“When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.”
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“It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.”
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“There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.”
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“A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.”
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“...it’d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I’ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'It’s a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didn’t need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick”
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“The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.”
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“Hope doesn't mean anything. ... Action's the only thing that counts.”
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“And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story like that," Nedley laughed. "What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!”
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“I don't know what you two are up to," Hobart said. "But you be careful now, you hear? Don't do anything I wouldn't do." "Well now, that doesn't restrict us very much, does it?" Mark teased back.”
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“Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws..”
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“Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.”
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“I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.”
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“There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.”
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“Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.”
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“I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.”
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“I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.”
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“Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.”
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“I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.”
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“I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.”
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“I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait”
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“I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe”
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“There's hope around the corner.”
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“I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.”
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“I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.”
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“I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!”
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“We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now,”
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“Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.”
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“I wished I'd known weeks ago that we didn't have to be chaperoned. I remembered my old daydreams: the prince and I, alone together, cuddling and whispering... I probably would have wised up and brocken the engagement sooner.”
-- Margaret Haddix
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