Meg Wolitzer

It's hard for me to feel bad when I'm writing well.

— 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

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

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...

— Meg Wolitzer

“I’ve always had a fear of being small and ordinary. “How can I just have this one life?”

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— 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

“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

While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one…

— Meg Wolitzer

But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them…

— Meg Wolitzer

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Crema Seamans," Ethan repeated thoughtfully. "It's like a soup made from ... various semens. A medley of semens. It's a flavour of…

— Meg Wolitzer

Objectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is…

— Meg Wolitzer

“If Jules or Ash needed to see each other, then the two husbands stepped aside. It almost seemed gratifying to the men…

— Meg Wolitzer

Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being…

— Meg Wolitzer

“What if she'd turned down the lightly flung invitation and went about her life, thudding obliviously along like a drunk person, a…

— Meg Wolitzer

And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little…

— Meg Wolitzer

“But here was where the question of talent became slippery, for who could say whether Spirit-in-the-Woods had ever pulled incipient talent out…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Jules told them, "I used to be a camper here myself," but she was confronted with a squeal of feedback, and even…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Irony was new to her and tasted oddly good, like a previously unavailable summer fruit. Soon, she and the rest of them…

— 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

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

— 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

“This was a time of life, she understood, in which you might not know what you were, but that was all right.…

— Meg Wolitzer

“She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan was brilliant at what…

— Meg Wolitzer

“But of course she liked Isadora less now, because she needed her less and saw her more clearly.”

— Meg Wolitzer

I think my writing changed when I put 'the' in front of my titles. It had more command.

— Meg Wolitzer

“Plus, constantly worrying about money is *boring*. Use your brain...to be creative.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“What does a woman have to do to be seen as a serious person?" "Be a man, I guess," Ethan said...”

— Meg Wolitzer

Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.

— Meg Wolitzer

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

— Meg Wolitzer

“It wasn't easy to understand how the love between two other people could diminish you.”

— Meg Wolitzer

I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.

— Meg Wolitzer