Meg Rosoff Quotes
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Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
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Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
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My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
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One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.
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Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.
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I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.
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When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.
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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 rural life.
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My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
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The more you live, the better writer you are.
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I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.
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I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.
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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 fields.
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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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In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.
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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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The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.
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Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.
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I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.