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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Writing, Imagination, Why We Write

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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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.

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  Offering, Ironic, Asking

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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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• 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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• 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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• The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

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  Average, Long, Trying

  "Selling yourself as a writer" by Meg Rosoff, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2007.

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

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  Fate, Men, Clothes

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• If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

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  Perfect Days, Perfect, Heard

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• Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

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  Dear Life, Happens, Happenings

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• I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.

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  Years, Anchors, Brain

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• I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.

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  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

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• The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break

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  Heart, Thinking, Break

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

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  Thinking, Feelings, Strange

  Meg Rosoff (2008). “What I Was”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.

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  Hate, Voice, People

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