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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
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#Hot
#Life
#Love
#Search
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.
- Meg Rosoff
#Details
#History
#Life
#Passion
#Rural
I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.
- Meg Rosoff
#Every
#Lived
#New
#Shrink
#Years
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
- Meg Rosoff
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#Human
#Long
#Trying
#Whatever
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
- Meg Rosoff
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#Me
#Mind
#Short
#Writing
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.
- Meg Rosoff
#Catch
#City
#Home
#Way
#World
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
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#Hysteria
#Me
#More
#People
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.
- Meg Rosoff
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#Life
#Love Is
#Love
#Truth
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
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#Doctor
#I Can
#Moment
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I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
- Meg Rosoff
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#Fields
#Late
#Morning
#Up
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
#Brain
#Fire
#First Time
#Time
#Words
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.
- Meg Rosoff
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#Down
#Experience
#Go
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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.
- Meg Rosoff
#Dark
#Doing
#Mind
#Place
#Work
Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
- Meg Rosoff
#Day
#Every Day
#Good Luck
#Good
#Luck
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.
- Meg Rosoff
#Heart
#Mind
#Reflection
#Soul
#Voice
I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.
- Meg Rosoff
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#Bad Attitude
#Bad
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