167 Quotes by Meg Rosoff

"I loved horses and horse books as a child."

"I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live."

"My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind."

"Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one."

"In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children."

"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."

"The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess."

"I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen."

"I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going."

"Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do."