Top 15 Quotes by Margaret Haddix

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

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.

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

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

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.

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.

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.

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.