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
real war kissing
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.
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.
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.
war persons turning-points
Every war has turning points and every person too.
america critical either sure
I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.
I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.
york yorker
I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.
books hard huge particular
It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading.
figure job people review
Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals.
convincing incredibly naturally people slightly teenagers
People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry.
african brought decided dissect supposed touching trace
I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.
becoming generally good huge learnt lovely numbers people reverse since work writer
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.
drop life
Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
writer
The more you live, the better writer you are.