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" I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens. "
Meg Rosoff
Write
Which
Think
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. "
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" I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. "
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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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" The more you live, the better writer you are. "
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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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" I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live. "
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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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" 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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Getting
" I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude. "
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" Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. "
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" I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. "
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Going
" 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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" 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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" 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
" 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
" 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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" 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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" 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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" In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books. "
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" My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. "
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" I have never written out of a desire to be controversial. "
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" I loved horses and horse books as a child. "
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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'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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