Margaret Haddix Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 19, 1964

Topics

PerspectiveWritingBetterBadBack

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.

Robert Motherwell

TimeWalkingYouFindGoThree

The minute you see a guy doing one of those Naomi Campbell catwalk-action kind of things, it falls apart. A lot of hips and the scissor walk? No! Men always need to be men.

Michael Bastian

WalkMenDoingYouKindNeed

While ignoring your bad habits may help you feel good initially, that avoidance will eventually catch up to you. When you don't address the unproductive and unhealthy things you're doing alongside your good habits, you'll stagnate.

Amy Morin

GoodFeel GoodFeelDoingHelpYou

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

Trey Parker

FunnyThinkComedyWantNeverPark

You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

Michelle Kwan

MistakesBetterWishYouFallSay

The word of God is a Christian's instructions for life. God speaks to us through His word, so we cannot constantly be running on empty.

Monica Johnson

LifeGodChristianThroughEmptyUs

I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival.

Milos Forman

DayRedRememberYouKnowFlag

I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.

Lizzy Caplan

CharacterSchoolPeopleThinkYou

I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.

Corey Stoll

ThinkProveAnswerBeingMasculine

More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Susan Stewart

GriefSufferingWritingPowerful

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

Paul Stanley

FreedomMyselfBestSongMusicians

I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there.

Shawn Mendes

LoveGreatCityMeSayingEnergy

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