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" I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny. "
Meg Rosoff
Destiny
Always
Know
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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. "
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Life
Details
" 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
" 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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Place
" 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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Remember
Reading
" I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens. "
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Write
Which
Think
" I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live. "
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Struggle
Think
Way
" My husband is my most valuable resource. "
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Resource
Valuable
Husband
" I have never written out of a desire to be controversial. "
Meg Rosoff
Controversial
Desire
Never
" 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
" 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 always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. "
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Always
Back
Going
" 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
" 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. "
Meg Rosoff
Writing
People
Work
" Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one. "
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Writing
Thinking
Skill
" 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
" I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. "
Meg Rosoff
New York
Years
Shrink
" 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. "
Meg Rosoff
Father
Truth
Love Is
" There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that. "
Meg Rosoff
More
Me
Kind
" 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. "
Meg Rosoff
Job
Reflection
Soul
" 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. "
Meg Rosoff
Leave
Know
People
" My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. "
Meg Rosoff
Companion
Daughter
Hopeless
" 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. "
Meg Rosoff
Think
Love
Life
" Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. "
Meg Rosoff
Books
Popular
Good
" 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. "
Meg Rosoff
Dark
Down
Experience
" 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
" Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. "
Meg Rosoff
Fall
Good Luck
Luck
" 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
" 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
" My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. "
Meg Rosoff
Me
Life
Short
" I loved horses and horse books as a child. "
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Horses
Loved
Books