Meg Rosoff Quotes & Sayings
43 most famous Meg Rosoff quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.”
“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.”
“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.”
“While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.”
“The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.”
“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.”
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