Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now, which won the Guardian Prize, Printz Award, and Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel, Just in Casewon the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.
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Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
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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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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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Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.
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I loved horses and horse books as a child.
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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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Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.
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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.
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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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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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I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.
I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.
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I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.