Margaret Haddix Quotes


"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."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Books)

"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."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Time, College, Fun, Reading, Summer)

"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."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Being, Flexibility, Freedom, Writer, Writing)

"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."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Months, Years)

"Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: First, Writing)

"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."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Flexibility, Freedom, Fun, Want)

"I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Trying)

"I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Books, Reading)

"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."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Books, Job)

"I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Fact, Kids)

"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."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Draft, Eyes, First, Months)

"After I've 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."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Draft, Improvement, Months)

"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."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Perspective, Writing)

"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."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Love, Right, Trying, Word, Words)