Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Downing Hahn

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Mary Downing Hahn is an American writer of young adult novels and a former school librarian. She is known for books such as Stepping On The Cracks and Wait Till Helen Comes. She published her first book in 1979 and has since written over 30 novels. Her most recent novel is *What We Saw.

American - Author | Born: December 9, 1937

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I was a coward. I'm still such a coward.

Mary Downing Hahn

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

Mary Downing Hahn

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

Mary Downing Hahn

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.

Mary Downing Hahn

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

Mary Downing Hahn

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

Mary Downing Hahn

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

Mary Downing Hahn

I was terrified of funerals.

Mary Downing Hahn

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

Mary Downing Hahn

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

Mary Downing Hahn

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.

Mary Downing Hahn

here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle.

Mary Downing Hahn

The rules are very strict.

Mary Downing Hahn

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

Mary Downing Hahn

Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.

Mary Downing Hahn

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

Mary Downing Hahn

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.

Mary Downing Hahn