Meg Wolitzer quotes

I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me. (Meg Wolitzer)

And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?

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People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.

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But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.

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Part of the beauty of love was that you didn't need to explain it to anyone else. You couldto explain. With love, apparently you didn't necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.

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The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

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

Meg Wolitzer

She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.

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We're talking about the novel, right? But maybe we're not. We're talking about ourselves. And I guess that's what can start to happen when you talk about a book.

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Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

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I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly. (Meg Wolitzer)

In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

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I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we're talking about the big picture - how they're relevant.

Meg Wolitzer

As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives.

Meg Wolitzer

But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.

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But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.

Meg Wolitzer

My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.

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Everyone,” she continues, looking around at all of us, "has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.

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... he's infuriated that his e-reader allows him to only know theof a book he's read, not the number of pages. This, he thinks, is 92 percent stupid.

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My job does not define me.

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I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again. (Meg Wolitzer)

I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.

Meg Wolitzer

We all would love the idea of people getting what's coming to them in books and in life, but sometimes the trajectory is a little more complicated than that.

Meg Wolitzer

I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.

Meg Wolitzer

People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.

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Meg Wolitzer

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: May 28, 1959
Quotes count: 65

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