American - Writer | October 16, 1956 -
Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
Meg Rosoff
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I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.
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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.
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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.
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In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.
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I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.
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Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
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I loved horses and horse books as a child.
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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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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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I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.
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I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.
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