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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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" 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

" 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. "

" While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software. "

" My husband is my most valuable resource. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Meg Rosoff

Writing

People

" My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. "

Meg Rosoff

Life

Short

" 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. "

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

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

" In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books. "

" I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen. "

Meg Rosoff

Person

Cheerful

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

" 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. "

" I loved horses and horse books as a child. "