Meg Rosoff

“His presence silenced, if only for a few seconds, the crackling anxiety that made my blood grate against my bones and for…

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I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

— Meg Rosoff

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

— Meg Rosoff

It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or…

— 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

She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

— Meg Rosoff

“So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one…

— Meg Rosoff

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

— Meg Rosoff

“Perhaps the way to proceed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity…

— Meg Rosoff

One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like…

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“The featureless trundle of my existence began to change. At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient…

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The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with.…

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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…

— Meg Rosoff

“Io so come ci si sente a essere sfigurati e devastati, solo che stavolta tutto questo sta fuori di me. A ogni…

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And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with…

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“Maybe he's lonely, she said, and I just looked at her wondering if she expected me to open a Home for the…

— Meg Rosoff

“I'm sorry I started all this by trying to fly and I'd take it back if I could but I can't, so…

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“Mona wasn't listening. Of course a bet was a bet, she thought. And there was her reputation to consider. Not to mention…

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“But I would like to make an important point before this goes any further and that is if anyone feels like arresting…

— Meg Rosoff

“When a creature begins to emerge from it's chrysails there is a point at which it is neither one thing nor the…

— Meg Rosoff

“In the beginning, the earth was without form, and void and the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the…

— Meg Rosoff

“And I think, OK. So a dog isn't the most important thing. But a dog like Honey loves one person completely, unwaveringly,…

— Meg Rosoff

“I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments, I was dying of loss. The only…

— Meg Rosoff

“Not to mention the loneliness. And at the same time, the crowdedness. The never being really alone, just to think, to rest…

— Meg Rosoff

“There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that.”

— Meg Rosoff

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

— Meg Rosoff

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

— Meg Rosoff

“… not like any smile i had ever experienced before. but such a smile! you could burn a hole in the world…

— Meg Rosoff

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

— Meg Rosoff

In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if…

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I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be…

— Meg Rosoff

“Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes”

— Meg Rosoff

“That's it,” Piper said. “That's the end.” But I knew it wasn't. They'd left out a chapter. The one where the hero…

— Meg Rosoff

“How many events added up to a coincidence? How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy?”

— Meg Rosoff

“I will not always be happy, but perhaps, if I'm lucky, I will be spared the agony of adding pain to the…

— Meg Rosoff

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

— Meg Rosoff

It might go down better than appearing as a giant reptile encased in a ball of fire and forcing yourself on her.'…

— Meg Rosoff

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

— Meg Rosoff

“It's just a playing field crammed full of cause and effect, billions of dominoes, each knocking over billions more, setting off trillions…

— Meg Rosoff

“...she sometimes makes me think of a planet rocketing along in a parallel universe”

— Meg Rosoff