Meg Rosoff Quotes

I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don't belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

Before Hollywood happened to me, I just took a break to think about whether I belong in the industry or whether I should be listening to whatever people were telling me.

I think we all do: I think we wonder if we're supposed to be here, if we're doing the right thing, if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.