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
solitude world cures
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?
player tennis comedian
Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.
responsibility tree accepted
it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.
sea swim leap
I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.
dog imaginary persons
I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?
alive staying-alive staying
Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
writing dark self
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.
waiting matter watches
If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.
alternatives dread miraculous
This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.
soldier black letters
The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked
fall emotional blood
Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
finding-yourself realizing hard
I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.
nice fall piano
A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.