Margaret Haddix Quotes & Sayings
15 most famous Margaret Haddix quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.”
“Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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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