"If you have the patience to wait and……" — Meg Rosoff
"If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist."
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66 Quotes by Meg Rosoff
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My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
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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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I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.
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