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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. "
Meg Rosoff
History
Life
Details
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" 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. "
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" I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. "
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" The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life. "
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" In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books. "
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" My husband is my most valuable resource. "
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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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" Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror. "
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" The more you live, the better writer you are. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I loved horses and horse books as a child. "
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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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" 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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" I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens. "
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" Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. "
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" 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. "
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" Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one. "
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" 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. "
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