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Margaret Peterson Haddix (17)

Birth:	9th April, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

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• Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

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  Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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