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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. "

Meg Rosoff

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Meg Rosoff

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them. "

" My husband is my most valuable resource. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one. "

" 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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The more you live, the better writer you are. "