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" I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. "
Meg Rosoff
Always
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Going
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" I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude. "
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" My husband is my most valuable resource. "
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" The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess. "
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Know
" I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. "
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" 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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People
Work
" Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly. "
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Down
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" Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. "
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Books
Popular
Good
" Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind. "
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Mind
Place
" 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. "
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Job
Reflection
Soul
" The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them. "
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Trying
Long
Attention
" Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one. "
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Writing
Thinking
Skill
" 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. "
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Writing
People
Me
" 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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Think
Love
Life
" 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. "
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History
Life
Details
" I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen. "
Meg Rosoff
Person
Am
Cheerful
" 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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Generation
Grow Up
Think
" The more you live, the better writer you are. "
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Writer
You
Better
" 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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Kiss
Book
Brain
" 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. "
Meg Rosoff
Responsibility
You
Book
" 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. "
Meg Rosoff
Children
Experience
Never
" Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do. "
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Done
You
Want
" 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. "
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Distance
I Can
Place
" I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live. "
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Struggle
Think
Way
" While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. "
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Creative
Energy
Peace
" 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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Father
Truth
Love Is
" My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. "
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Daughter
Hopeless
" 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. "
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Writing
Life
My Life
" I have never written out of a desire to be controversial. "
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Controversial
Desire
Never
" 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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Biology
Way
Moment
" Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror. "
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Absolutely
Up
Life