Margaret Mahy Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• In a way, the characters often do take over.

  Margaret Mahy

  Character, Way

• 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

  Character, Ideas, Stories

• There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

  Margaret Mahy

  Character, Space, Everyday

• Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

  Margaret Mahy

  Character, Vocabulary, Differences

• 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

  Attitude, Believe, Writing

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