Meg Wolitzer

I am a novelist through and through.

— Meg Wolitzer

“...the Iraq war was the Ishtar of wars.”

— Meg Wolitzer

I have never been much of a researcher

— Meg Wolitzer

“high-fiving one another without evident irony.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“The past is so tenacious.”

— Meg Wolitzer

I don't write autobiographically.

— Meg Wolitzer

It's gratifying to be taken seriously, always.

— Meg Wolitzer

Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— Meg Wolitzer

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

— Meg Wolitzer

Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?

— Meg Wolitzer

“Only when those fathers were not on the premises could they be elevated and deified.”

— Meg Wolitzer

The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

— Meg Wolitzer

Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— Meg Wolitzer

'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.

— Meg Wolitzer

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything…

— Meg Wolitzer

“When do I stop? When I'm tewnty-five? Thirty? Thirty-five? Forty? Or right this minute? Nobody tell s you how long you should…

— Meg Wolitzer

“...closure, that impossible thing that no one had ever experienced in life, because there always seemed to be a little aperture, a…

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“constantly worrying about money is boring. Use your brain to think about your clients and their problems. Use it to be creative.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“Everyone simply had to wait patiently in order to lose the people they loved one by one, all the while acting as…

— Meg Wolitzer

“The students lurked on the edges of their teachers' lives for years, and brought bulletins from their own lives, which over time…

— Meg Wolitzer

“You're telling me that because of the Internet, and the availability of every experience, every whim, every tool, sudden everyone's an artist?…

— Meg Wolitzer

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

— Meg Wolitzer

“You didn't always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep…

— Meg Wolitzer

We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and…

— Meg Wolitzer

“The Buffalo nipple' became a secret phrase that referred not only to this specific event, but to any misguided action that a…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Standing in the heat and noise, facing the rows of bent heads, Ethan Figman willed himself to leave that long sleep in…

— Meg Wolitzer

“What was it about needy girls? Jules wondered. They felt like they had the right to be needy, because they knew that…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Though Jonah felt transfixed inside his own childhood, no one else saw him as a child. He was already over the hump…

— Meg Wolitzer

“And it was true that if you categorized people by which Disney character they were, then Jonah would always be Bambi. Motherless,…

— Meg Wolitzer

“We had a good marriage," he said. "I just thought it would be so much longer." Then he shrugged, and coughed away…

— Meg Wolitzer

“You sometimes heard about the marginally talented wives of powerful men publishing children's books or designing handbags or, most commonly, becoming photographers.…

— Meg Wolitzer

“...You want to know whether the problems that you teenagers feel—will they follow you over the rest of your lives? Will your…

— Meg Wolitzer

“The way Susannah sings 'The Wind Will Carry Us' is so sad," he murmured. "Yeah, it really is." "It makes me think…

— Meg Wolitzer

“For while they'd stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different…

— Meg Wolitzer

“When you lived a certain kind of life, pushed along by good colleges and internships and jobs and a shared, tranquil neighborhood…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Everyone needs a wife; even wives need wives. Wives tend, they hover. Their ears are twin sensitive instruments, satellites picking up the…

— Meg Wolitzer

But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Ordinary father-daughter love had a charge to it that generally was both permitted and indulged. There was just something so beautiful about…

— Meg Wolitzer