My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn’t really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books. Margo Lanagan Read Quote
There’s this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play – at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before. Margo Lanagan Read Quote
How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises? Margo Lanagan Read Quote
I do occasionally get into that ‘checking Twitter every five minutes’ state – ‘Please, help me avoid my work.’ I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet’s reach. Margo Lanagan Read Quote
I’m a very promiscuous reader. My dad’s a big science fiction fan, so I’d read ‘Dune,’ and ‘Watership Down’ and ‘The Lord Of The Rings.’ Margo Lanagan Read Quote
It’s useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us. Margo Lanagan Read Quote
