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Mary Downing Hahn Biography

Mary Downing Hahn (born December 9, 1937) is an American writer of young adult novels and former school librarian. She is known for many books such as Stepping On The Cracks and Wait Till Helen Comes. She published her first book in 1979 and has since written over twenty novels.

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The rules are very strict.

Strict, Rules

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

Book, Books, Come, Scared, Scary, Writing

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

Bodies, Body, Dead, Haunt, Think, Thinking

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

Easily, Know, Knows, Like, Scared

I was terrified of funerals.

Funeral, Funerals, Terrified

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

Editors, Know, Thinking, Want

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

Riddle, Opinionated

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

Feels, Ghost, Ghost Stories, Stories, Writing

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.

Age, Die, Doors, People

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

Body, Might, Stills, Poking, Dead

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.

Date, Day, Know, Knows, Odd, Years

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

King, Kings, Persons, Terrified, Thinking, Universe

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

Dangerous, Dark, Deep, Water

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

Coward, Stills

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.

Clouds, Friends, Moon, Sun, Wind

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

Choose, Control, Like, Like You, Real, Stories

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.

Back, Course, Decision, Looks, Realize, Thinking

There are a lot of reasons to doubt things.

Doubt, Reason, Reasons, Things

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

Agent, Agents, Editors, People, Thinking

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

Day, Ends, Lives, Talk, Teenager, Thinking