Meg Wolitzer

New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various…

— Meg Wolitzer

“It was exhausting being a schizophrenic, which he was still convinced he was.”

— Meg Wolitzer

I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met.…

— 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 don't write autobiographically.

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— 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

“Another spell had been thrust upon her so long ago...She hadn't been able to see it but it was real. Otherwise why…

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— Meg Wolitzer

“The world of law was filled with the fallen, but theater wasn't. No one ever "fell back" onto theater. You had 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

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

“No one ever told you that in moment of crisis, family was allowed to trump friendship.”

— Meg Wolitzer

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

— Meg Wolitzer

“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

To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who…

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— Meg Wolitzer

“Having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children, you closed ranks. You didn't plan this…

— Meg Wolitzer

“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

“All of the women in that time and place, Thea had learned, were stuffed into muslin and starched cotton and forced to…

— 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…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take…

— 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

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

— Meg Wolitzer

“I am having a crisis, she thought. I suddenly feel a new fragile sense of myself in this world and it's unbearable.”

— Meg Wolitzer