Meg Rosoff Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 16, 1956

Topics

WorkMindWritingDeepDoingYou

I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

Jim Costa

AppreciateFactWonDistrictFully

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Michael Harrington

ImportantRhetoricPoorOldThings

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Michael Jackson

InspirationalLoveTruthHeartSoul

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

Lisa Hanawalt

ArtSchoolWritingThoughtDrawing

I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.

Judy Blume

MotherBestWorldAlwaysAssume

In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her college dorm room, pursued by a man, either real or imagined, who finally materializes as the father she has never known.

Susan Shreve

FatherWomanManCollegeBookBlack

Market-led globalization is leading to a race to the bottom, where efficiency and profit matter more than a fair share for working people.

Sharan Burrow

PeopleEfficiencyGlobalizationRace

I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

Thomas Jane

LifeLoveTimeMindMeDoing

I'm a big follow-through person. Everything I do, and everyone I meet, I follow through with it.

Rich the Kid

PersonMeetFollowEverythingBig

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

Moshe Dayan

BlameYouPlaceKnowGeography

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Leonard Cohen

WorldSleepingLastSenseRefuge

Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years, their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

ChangeMenEarthNowWillWeak

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