Words matter. These are the best Meg Rosoff Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There’s an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There’s a kind of hysteria about that.
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.
I loved horses and horse books as a child.
I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I’m optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.
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.
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.
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.
Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It’s cowardly, I know, but I figure it’s not my job to make people unhappy. I’ll leave that to the professionals.
As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing – the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
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.
My husband is my most valuable resource.
One of the more interesting things I’ve learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you’ll generally like the person. It doesn’t always work in reverse – there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
The more you live, the better writer you are.
I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.
Life doesn’t go on forever, and you don’t want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
The truth about love is that you don’t always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend’s husband and sometimes it’s your father. It’s weird. But that’s a fact of life.
I’ve been fired five times for having a bad attitude.
In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children’s books and almost never read the books themselves – particularly if they don’t have children.
It’s hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don’t tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading.
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion – she’s totally organised, whereas I’m hopeless.
I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.
I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.
Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
