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
war night world
I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.
finding-yourself realizing hard
I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.
war thinking losing-everything
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.
fire balls reptiles
It might go down better than appearing as a giant reptile encased in a ball of fire and forcing yourself on her.' 'WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BRING THAT UP?
knows
After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.
war persons turning-points
Every war has turning points and every person too.
lines lost
Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.
offering ironic asking
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.
new-york educational kids
but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it.
jobs writing heart
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.
feelings brain alive
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.
dog believe fate
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.
civilization noses decline
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.
credit enough manage
I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.