Quotes Margaret Haddix

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, the...

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff...

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set i...

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel ...

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and ...

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized ...

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grad...

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from ...

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading l...

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'...

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and...

My kids are still a little young for my books. They think it...

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spe...

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a...

There's something about each of my books that I'm really pro...

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being...