“No one ever told you that in moment of crisis, family was allowed to trump friendship.” — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“The students lurked on the edges of their teachers' lives for years, and brought bulletins from their own lives, which over time… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“They should hand out vibrators if they're going to demand so much of you that you can't find time for a private… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“But maybe in life, she thought later, there are not only moments of strangeness but moments of knowledge, which don’t appear at… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Your personal history of pain, by the time you reached the age of forty, was supposedto have been folded thoroughly into the… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“If Jules or Ash needed to see each other, then the two husbands stepped aside. It almost seemed gratifying to the men… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Well," said Ash, and she got out of her own bed and came to sit beside Jules. "I've always sort of felt… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“I’ve always sort of felt that you prepare yourself over the course of your whole life for the big moments, you know?… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Apparently, something can happen inside someone you love—it can just happen somehow—and like magic she thinks that she’s had enough, and that… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Soon, she and the rest of them would be ironic much of the time, unable to answer an innocent question without giving… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
"Unputdownable" is, I suppose, something we all dream of, maybe without knowing it. I realized, some time ago, that a novel can… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met.… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“All of the women in that time and place, Thea had learned, were stuffed into muslin and starched cotton and forced to… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“This was a time of life, she understood, in which you might not know what you were, but that was all right.… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
“It was exhausting being a schizophrenic, which he was still convinced he was.” — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still,… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
“This was a time of life, she understood, in which you might not know what you were, but that was all right. You judged… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
“Another spell had been thrust upon her so long ago...She hadn't been able to see it but it was real. Otherwise why would you… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
“The world of law was filled with the fallen, but theater wasn't. No one ever "fell back" onto theater. You had to really, really… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
“Crema Seamans," Ethan repeated thoughtfully. "It's like a soup made from ... various semens. A medley of semens. It's a flavour of Campbell's soup… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“No one ever told you that in moment of crisis, family was allowed to trump friendship.” — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
“Part of the beauty of love was that you didn't need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain.” — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share
