Top 15 Quotes by Margaret Haddix

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.

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

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

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

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

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.

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.