Meg Rosoff Quotes

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Meg Rosoff

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 16, 1956

I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

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Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

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The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

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Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

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People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry.

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Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.

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Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.

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Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

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I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.

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My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

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I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

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I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

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In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

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I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

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Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.

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I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.

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I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.

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Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

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I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

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The more you live, the better writer you are.

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