20 Meg Rosoff Quotes for You to Enjoy

Meg Rosoff

American Writer

Born: Oct 16, 1956

Books Life People Think Writing You

Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward

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. Meg Rosoff

Time You Book Words Kiss Fire First Overtime Characters Wearing Neurons No-One Feels Pictures Like Make Read First Time How Brain Deciding Your Standing Paints Shows Suggestions

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

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. Meg Rosoff

Life Writing Right Person My Life Books Finally Spent Wear Like Most Becoming Fit Person Persona Trying Quite Right Started

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. Meg Rosoff

Doctor Biology Way Those Brought Touching Supposed Trace Bugs Were African Decided Them Moment Actually Dissect

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror. Meg Rosoff

Life Horrific Horror Absolute Absolutely Leading Up

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

You Fall Think Back Plot Write Always Going Keep Things

The more you live, the better writer you are. Meg Rosoff

You Better Live More Writer Better Writer

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

Dark Worst Outside Cheerful Am Optimistic Expect Person Quite Happen

I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. Meg Rosoff

Every Sees New Years York Yorker New York New Yorker Lived Shrink

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

Me People Writing Clever Incredibly Teenagers Worry Slightly About Like Talk Course Which Really Convincing Naturally Thing

I loved horses and horse books as a child. Meg Rosoff

Books Horse Horses Child Loved

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. Meg Rosoff

Family You World State Out About Seem Adolescence Emerging Fact Obscurity Know Mess Because Coming Normal In Fact Your Thing

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

Book Nothing Think About Write Bravest Just Happens Which Thing

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

Experience Sense Destiny Arise Know Always Deep Careers

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