Top 43 Quotes by Meg Rosoff

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

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals.

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.

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

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

I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.