Meg Rosoff Quotes

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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 standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

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  Book, Character, Kissing

  "World Book Night: Meg Rosoff on Mal Peet" by Meg Rosoff, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 23, 2012.

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• Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

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  Dog, Believe, Fate

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• The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

  Meg Rosoff

  Writing, Imagination, Why We Write

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• 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.

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  Heart, Thinking, Laughing

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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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  Credit, Enough, Manage

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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 hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

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  Meaningful, Thinking, Journey

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Writing, Heart

  "How to write fiction: Meg Rosoff on finding your voice". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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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 deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

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  Writing, Dark, Self

  "How to write fiction: Meg Rosoff on finding your voice". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.

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  Giving, Thanks, Passing

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• It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.

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  Heart, Fire, Hands

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

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  Solitude, World, Cures

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• it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.

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  Responsibility, Tree, Accepted

  Meg Rosoff (2008). “What I Was”, p.45, Penguin UK

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• Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

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  Player, Tennis, Comedian

  Meg Rosoff (2007). “Just in Case”, p.85, Penguin UK

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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 the feeling that I was starving, starving for Edmond. And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world.

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  Feelings, Brain, Alive

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• Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

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  Civilization, Noses, Decline

  Meg Rosoff (2005). “How I Live Now”, p.43, Penguin UK

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• Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.

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  Heart, Persistence, Boys

  Meg Rosoff (2008). “What I Was”, p.41, Penguin UK

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• And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Lying

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• I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

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  War, Night, World

  "How I Live Now". Book by Meg Rosoff, 2004.

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• I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.

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  Finding Yourself, Realizing, Hard

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• Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

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  Fall, Emotional, Blood

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• The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.

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  Real, War, Kissing

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• The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

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  Soldier, Black, Letters

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• This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

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  Alternatives, Dread, Miraculous

  Meg Rosoff (2011). “There Is No Dog”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• 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.

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  War, Thinking, Losing Everything

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• Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

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  Alive, Staying Alive, Staying

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