Meg Rosoff Quotes

I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly.

I'm never going to be a flat-line guy. My heart is going to be on my sleeve with every shot.

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

I approach everything the same. I try to make it as real as possible, whether you gotta make people laugh or make people cry, it's always the same approach for me. But if I start doing pratfalls, somebody please pull the plug on me.

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

Mostly you don't want to make people feel bad because they carry that with them for the rest of their lives. I've found that. I hurt people on Celebrity Fit Club by being too honest. People loved it, but I was serious. I just hate phony baloneys. I can't do it anymore. I told them no. My tongue is too sharp. It was brutal.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama. There's a lot of bullshit drama that leaves you totally cold. And there's a lot of wasted comedy time too. But when you get something honest, it doesn't matter what label you give it.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

There is a deep power in words that speak the truth

Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

If you can't do it with feeling - don't.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.