In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.
Rosemary Mahoney
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.
We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room... →
Roger Mahony
I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of... →
Margaret Mahy
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs... →
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over... →
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
Norman Mailer
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
Ella Maillart