Meg Rosoff Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeLoveIdentityWorldThinkLong

When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you aren't respected. What that actually does to a person's confidence and psyche is really fascinating to me.

Andre Holland

ConfidenceLiveMeEnvironmentYou

I tend to edit some as I go - partly because one of the reasons I don't outline much is that I don't know what the next scene will be until I've actually written the previous scene.

Ann Leckie

GoKnowWillNextBecauseOutline

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

Stephen Fry

HappinessPersons

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Stan Getz

ChallengeBodyYour BodyOutsideFar

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Tracy Morgan

LifeCatsPeopleCuriosityMy Life

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.

Tom Wolfe

LifePowerWordsI AmAnimalMe

Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family.

Rose George

FamilyChildYouReason

My fashion icons change regularly.

Roisin Murphy

ChangeFashionIconsRegularly

I want to give the American people assurances that we are protecting them.

Michael McCaul

PeopleAmericanWantGiveThem

One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

Jason Alexander

PeopleYouPlaySeePokerBeing

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.

Jonathan Safran Foer

YourselfYouSomethingBeenLies

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

Johnny Winter

MotherMusicHouseAlwaysPianoHad

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