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All Quotes by author - Meg Rosoff

" 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. "

" As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software. "

" Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. "

" Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. "

" I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields. "

" I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. "

" I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have never written out of a desire to be controversial. "

" I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny. "

" I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. "

" I loved horses and horse books as a child. "

" I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books. "

" I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live. "

" I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens. "

" 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. "

" I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude. "

" I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person. "

" Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do. "

" Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror. "

" 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. "

" My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. "

" My husband is my most valuable resource. "

" My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. "

" 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. "

" 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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