"I have never written out of a desire…" — Meg Rosoff
"I have never written out of a desire to be controversial."
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66 Quotes by Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff has 66 quotes on this site.
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My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
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If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in…
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Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.
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When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're…
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The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
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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…
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I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see…
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I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over…
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Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to…
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Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
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While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
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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…
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More Controversial Quotes
This quote is filed under Controversial Quotes,
one of 208 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
— Julian Assange
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Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
— Charles Barkley
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When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's…
— Rob Bell
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
— Erma Bombeck
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government…
— Barbara Bush
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant.…
— Sherman Alexie
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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you…
— Jimmy Carter
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I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most…
— Dick Cheney
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You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of…
— Jesse Bering
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Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
— Dean Acheson
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In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look…
— Rick Santorum
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The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is…
— Rick Santorum
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