Top 30 Margaret Haddix Quotes (2024 Update)

Margaret Haddix Quote: “Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.”

1. “Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn’t have chosen my own husband. And here I’m thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws...”

2. “Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn’t have chosen my own husband. And here I’m thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws...”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “There’s hope around the corner.”

3. “There’s hope around the corner.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Margaret Haddix

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Margaret Haddix Quote: “Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father’s crying. I’ve had no time to harden my heart against him.”

5. “Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father’s crying. I’ve had no time to harden my heart against him.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they’re right on the edge of survival.”

6. “The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they’re right on the edge of survival.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!”

8. “I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.”

9. “Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.”

12. “I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “I wish, peevishly, that he didn’t know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.”

13. “I wish, peevishly, that he didn’t know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.”

14. “There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.”

15. “I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “I like to know what I’m celebrating before I put on a party hat.”

16. “I like to know what I’m celebrating before I put on a party hat.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can’t go on pretending she isn’t crying.”

17. “The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can’t go on pretending she isn’t crying.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father – burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin – doesn’t seem to belong on it.”

18. “That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father – burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin – doesn’t seem to belong on it.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “Jen, we did it. Everyone’s free now.”

19. “Jen, we did it. Everyone’s free now.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “After Ive 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.”

20. “After Ive 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.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.”

21. “Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.”

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

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “I think I learned a lot from reading in general – even from reading badly written books.”

23. “I think I learned a lot from reading in general – even from reading badly written books.”

— Margaret Haddix

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Margaret Haddix Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Margaret Haddix

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Margaret Haddix Quote: “I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.”

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

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I’m telling strange tales.”

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

— Margaret Haddix

Margaret Haddix Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

— Margaret Haddix

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