Best 15 quotes of Mary Downing Hahn on MyQuotes

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

I was terrified of funerals.

I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

The lake's deep...and dark...and dangerous.

Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.

WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.