Meg Rosoff quotes

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say. (Meg Rosoff)
I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.
Meg Rosoff
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.
Meg Rosoff
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
Meg Rosoff
Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
Meg Rosoff
The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break.
Meg Rosoff
Every war has turning points and every person too.
Meg Rosoff
I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.
Meg Rosoff
Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
Meg Rosoff
I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.
Meg Rosoff
Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break. (Meg Rosoff)
And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving for Edmond. And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world.
Meg Rosoff
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?
Meg Rosoff
Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.
Meg Rosoff
If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.
Meg Rosoff
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
Meg Rosoff
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.
Meg Rosoff
Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
Meg Rosoff
After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.
Meg Rosoff
Maybe we shouldn't be living this way, without grass and trees, and ducks, always under pressure, always trying to catch up, never enough time or energy for the things we love, if we can even remember what those things are.
Meg Rosoff
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them. (Meg Rosoff)
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.
Meg Rosoff
Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
Meg Rosoff
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
Meg Rosoff
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
Meg Rosoff