Margaret Haddix
Margaret Haddix
Margaret Peterson Haddixis an American writer known best for the two children's series, Shadow Childrenand The Missing. She also wrote the tenth volume in The 39 Clues, published by Scholastic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth9 April 1964
CityWashingotn Court House, OH
CountryUnited States of America
jobs book kids
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.
kids facts strange
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.
summer fun reading
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.
writing long firsts
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
book proud cringe
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.
writing trying third-grade
I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.
trying failing bigs
Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.
mean action
Hope doesn't mean anything. ... Action's the only thing that counts.
government people survival
The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.
games play fire
...it’d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I’ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'It’s a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didn’t need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick
strange wonderful realizing
A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.
printed-word valuable printed
There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.
writing wells bad-things
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.
husband home thinking
Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws..