Meg Rosoff Quotes


At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an Idea. Another person. An idea of a person.


Citations

Rosoff, Meg. What I Was. Viking Juvenile, 2007.

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Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff
  • Born: October 16, 1956
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Meg Rosoff is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now (Puffin, 2004), which won the Guardian Prize, Printz Award, and Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel, Just in Case (Penguin, 2006), won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the UK.