The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with.… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Maybe he's lonely, she said, and I just looked at her wondering if she expected me to open a Home for the Socially Challenged… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
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… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Minden háború történetének van fordulópontja, és minden emberének is.” — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“He was a peculiar sight. Tears rolling down his face, shouting to drown the sound of the singing rabbit; he said he needed help,… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I love you. I'm madly in love with you. Well, madly obviously, given I'm mad as a mudlark. But you saved my life. I'd… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
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… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
