Meg Rosoff quote: "Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul."

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

On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of ho...
MEG ROSOFF

I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.

T...
MEG ROSOFF

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake ...
MEG ROSOFF

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're tr...
MEG ROSOFF

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

I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brough...
MEG ROSOFF

There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoi...
MEG ROSOFF

Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a ...
MEG ROSOFF

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the ...
MEG ROSOFF

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequent...
MEG ROSOFF

It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don&...
MEG ROSOFF

One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the b...
MEG ROSOFF

I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?
MEG ROSOFF

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wear...
MEG ROSOFF

Where's your dog?" Peter's voice came from within the gushing stream of water. Justin thought he mus...
MEG ROSOFF

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply to...
MEG ROSOFF

And I think, OK. So a dog isn't the most important thing. But a dog like Honey loves one person comp...
MEG ROSOFF

Time erodes us all.
MEG ROSOFF

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short...
MEG ROSOFF

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.
MEG ROSOFF

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows...
MEG ROSOFF

I noticed that once you realize
someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself MEG ROSOFF

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, ...
MEG ROSOFF

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brai...
MEG ROSOFF

It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doi...
MEG ROSOFF

It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything o...
MEG ROSOFF

Content owners may not take advantage of what Microsoft is doing? They could bypass the PC altogethe...
MATT ROSOFF

Most of the spokes are supplied by partners, Microsoft earns royalties, and the whole thing helps pe...
MATT ROSOFF

I think it's exclusively a move to boost the brand.
MATT ROSOFF

That is crazy expensive. But once you've got users in your world, you can track them. There is sort ...
MATT ROSOFF

That is one area that Microsoft thinks is potentially very lucrative and fast growing.
MATT ROSOFF

This could be a chance to inflect that growth rate upward. But it's a challenge for Microsoft to ove...
MATT ROSOFF

This is definitely being driven by Microsoft's desire to position Windows as a home entertainment hu...
MATT ROSOFF

There might be an executive departure that we haven't heard of yet.
MATT ROSOFF

That number three job at Microsoft is a tough position to be in.
MATT ROSOFF

They are licensing a specific subset related to the protocols the EU demanded more documentation on.
MATT ROSOFF

That has been the big threat from Google all along -- that Google would turn the Web into this platf...
MATT ROSOFF

My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a ...
MEG WOLITZER

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad th...
MEG WHITE

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
MEG GREENFIELD

In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some peop...
MEG WOLITZER

Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice.
'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?'
MEG CABOT

In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I wa...
MEG CABOT

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was t...
MEG CABOT

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fea...
MEG CABOT

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff obj...
MEG GREENFIELD

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that...
MEG WHITMAN

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
I really hate this expression. I bet fish wo...
MEG CABOT

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put th...
MEG CABOT

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love havin...
MEG CABOT

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do v...
MEG CABOT

My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren...
MEG CABOT

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.
MEG WHITMAN

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.
MEG RYAN

'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional e...
MEG WOLITZER

And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it...
MEG CABOT

Sorry, Bex," Jason said "You don't have the recognizable facial characteristics - such as a huge chi...
MEG CABOT

I am here. I am in the present tense. I'm not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult pl...
MEG HOWREY

Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequ...
MEG WHITE

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politicia...
MEG WHITMAN

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in Califor...
MEG WHITMAN

Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't...
MEG CABOT

Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.
MEG RYAN

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding ath...
MEG CABOT

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I d...
MEG WHITE

Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by ...
MEG CABOT

Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and ...
MEG CABOT

Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but al...
MEG CABOT

I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.
MEG RYAN

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential ang...
MEG RYAN

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on i...
MEG WHITMAN

Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.
MEG CABOT

I've never even been to Long Island
MEG CABOT

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on...
MEG WHITE

I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more convers...
MEG CABOT

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is...
MEG WHITMAN

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle poin...
MEG CABOT

I do press junkets and people will tell me what I've supposedly said in articles and I always disagr...
MEG RYAN

I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on ...
MEG WHITMAN

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in tryi...
MEG RYAN

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might ...
MEG CABOT

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are g...
MEG WHITE

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
MEG WOLITZER

It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
MEG WHITE

When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring,...
MEG CABOT

Like the sun, you stay for a limited amount of time. When you are gone, I sit there waiting there un...
MEG MCFEY

Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear....
MEG CABOT

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for ...
MEG CABOT

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks
MEG CABOT

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.
MEG WHITMAN

But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hott...
MEG CABOT

Roses are red, violets are blue. You may not know it, but someone loves you.
MEG CABOT

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't th...
MEG TILLY

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writi...
MEG CABOT

Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird?
MEG CABOT

Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.
MEG CABOT

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing an...
MEG CABOT

Are you a pirate?
MEG CABOT

Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench!
MEG CABOT

Well, hi, CeeCee," I said. "Hi, Adam. Nice of you two to drop by. Ever heard of knocking?"
"Oh,...
MEG CABOT

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisf...
MEG GREENFIELD

The potential consequences of climate change are so sobering that it's difficult to imagine how indi...
MEG GARLINGHOUSE

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it...
MEG CABOT

It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most drama...
MEG JAY

The cover of Mojo, that was good for us.
MEG WHITE

Kayla snatched the ruby-coloured bra he'd dug out from behind his back. "You should know, you're the...
MEG CABOT

But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Inte...
MEG WOLITZER

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
MEG GREENFIELD

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to fe...
MEG WOLITZER

We wrapped a year and a half ago and [since then] ... I've been to fights and watch fights. It's nut...
MEG RYAN

He's a very specific actor. You know, he's so capable - just the way he deals with props is amazing.
MEG RYAN

Oh, Im so inadequate and I love myself!
MEG RYAN

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't wa...
MEG RYAN

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.
MEG WHITE

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how lo...
MEG RYAN

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a dis...
MEG TILLY

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your no...
MEG TILLY

My career is every housewife's dream. Someone drives you to work, when you get there they make you l...
MEG TILLY

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look a...
MEG TILLY

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movi...
MEG TILLY

I didn't start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sud...
MEG TILLY

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full o...
MEG TILLY

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a hau...
MEG TILLY

I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it-and I just want to keep getting better.
MEG TILLY

For a marriage to work, for a relationship to work, it requires commitment and a lot of work. There ...
MEG TILLY

I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's beca...
MEG TILLY

But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs
At least he knows ...
MEG CABOT

I have nothing against Sean Penn. I don't even mind that he ended up divorcing Madonna. I mean, I st...
MEG CABOT

Lana says J.P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana
MEG CABOT

Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they ...
MEG CABOT

No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire ...
MEG CABOT

Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just...
MEG CABOT

And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much.

MEG CABOT

I wish I could say when Michael's dark eyes met mind, I was completely cool and collected about seei...
MEG CABOT

And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids ...
MEG CABOT

But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends,...
MEG CABOT

I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.
MEG CABOT

My first Solheim was when we lost at Dalmahoy (in Scotland) in 1992,
MEG MALLON

There is something about the sport that is so filmic ... there is something about the availability a...
MEG RYAN

It's disappointing, not to be able to reach that level (of play seen in a 10-9 last second win over ...
MEG SULLIVAN

You know when you are not praying with your head, your heart is crying out.
MEG NEZAJ

I'll be post-feminist in the post-patriarchy
MEG SULLIVAN

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I...
MEG RYAN

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely ...
MEG GREENFIELD

Defensively, we work hard at taking away the center of the field. We try to force the play to the ou...
MEG ASHLEY

We employ a variety of formations depending upon what the team we play dictates.
MEG ASHLEY

We feel that our current record could be a little bit better. We want to improve with every game and...
MEG ASHLEY

We finished .500 last season. We've got seven returning starters this year and we've got a nice comb...
MEG ASHLEY

When you love you, others will see you loving you, and love you too!
MEG NEZAJ

How you believe is how you are. Do not hide in desolation, I know time is not on your side, but use ...
MEG NEZAJ

I find, you can nourish inner beauty by moisturising outwardly.
MEG NEZAJ

Listening to your heart is encouraged, but not if it feels like squeezing lemons in an open wound, c...
MEG NEZAJ

Never underestimate a good lotion, it can instantly make your body feel fabulous, and nourish your t...
MEG NEZAJ

Climate change: Diligent forests and the mighty sea grip eachother by the arm to hold this world tog...
MEG NEZAJ

Love is war to those who do not live for the highest good of all living things.
MEG NEZAJ

Love is rising, in truth uniting!
MEG NEZAJ

Why hurt yourself when there are others who will gladly do it for you
MEG NEZAJ

When I don't get help, I look for it but stay quiet. When I get help, I don't appreciate it since al...
MEG MCFEY

When I smile, you frown as if I did something to harm you. When I frown, you smile as if you just wo...
MEG MCFEY

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at o...
MEG STUART

You always tell me to be careful around everyone else but you when you are the actual cause of my pa...
MEG MCFEY

I betray her, I betray myself and make you happy. I betray you, I betray myself and make her happy. ...
MEG MCFEY

When I look at you, I start to get tears in my eyes. I feel like you will never forgive what I did. ...
MEG MCFEY

You are like my shadow. Mimicking everything I do. Even when the sun is gone and the moon in hidden ...
MEG MCFEY

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, ...
MEG WHITMAN

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working o...
MEG CABOT

I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.
MEG CABOT

Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever.
MEG CABOT

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a wh...
MEG TILLY

I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.
MEG DONOHUE

Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers.
MEG CABOT

Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're hea...
MEG CABOT

Instead of Tickle Me Elmo, the coat tickles you.
MEG LINTON

I lay
there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew...
MEG CABOT

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the m...
MEG TILLY

Nikki "Brandon's never hurt anyone. He's competely sweet and adorable."

I choked a little...
MEG CABOT

If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not.
He should like you f...
MEG CABOT

Though you are a part of me, I can't forgive what you did to me.
MEG MCFEY

Getting up at 6 a.m. and hitting the trails and you get done and feel like you've accomplished somet...
MEG BARRETT

Now I feel like one of those Rodeo riders. I'm on top of a wild horse that won't stop jumping and ki...
MEG TILLY

We're a different entity coming in from the outside, and we have to put our resources where our moth...
MEG CASPER

I hide in the shadows where only dark spirits can see.
MEG MCFEY

I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasn't importa...
MEG TILLY

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful...
MEG TILLY

I'm the type of person who likes to know exactly how many steps she will have to take and when she s...
MEG TILLY

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Fe...
MEG TILLY

I enjoy my own company far too much to just hang out with anybody
MEG NEZAJ

You are like an evergreen tree. You are always there whenever I need you. You have rough edges that ...
MEG MCFEY

I wanted you for a long time and you never realized how much I cared for you. I have asked you many ...
MEG MCFEY

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses...
MEG RYAN

Oh, I’m so inadequate – and I love myself!
MEG RYAN

Fame is also a test of character at times... Sometimes I pass the test; sometimes I'm a pain in the ...
MEG RYAN

The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox ...
MEG RYAN

The creativity? Oh, yes. OH, YES!
MEG RYAN

Tačiau mano susižavėjimą kėlė ne jos gebėjimas gimdyti įstabiai gražius vaikus, o laikysena...
MEG MEEKER

Kad pavyko atrasti gilesnį savo gyvenimo tikslą, tampa aišku tuomet, kai neskaičiuojame už atli...
MEG MEEKER

–Ne, ne visuomet buvau tokia. Susikuriu energiją, na, žinoma, ne tiesiogine prasme, tačiau elgi...
MEG MEEKER

Kai tik pajuntame nenugalimą norą aplinkiniams padaryti įspūdį, tampa aišku, kad kaltas nevisa...
MEG MEEKER

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

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Meg Rosoff

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

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