Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now, which won the Guardian Prize, Printz Award, and Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel, Just in Casewon the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
morning horse fields
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
life-is horror absolutes
Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
reality thinking ideas
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.
heart thinking break
The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break
perfect-days perfect heard
If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.
alive staying-alive staying
Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
mother daughter hopeless
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
waiting matter watches
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.
responsibility accepting conditions
Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.
writing imagination why-we-write
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
magic break banter
I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If they get it, they push it a bit further. Then it's your turn again. And theirs. And so on, until it's banter. Once it's banter, it's friendship.
meaningful journey thinking
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.
fate men clothes
Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.
average long trying
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.