Meg Wolitzer Quotes

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• The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it any…
• I have never been much of a researcher
• Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.
• Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently…
• The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.
• The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.
• The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations.…
• People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten…
• You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.
• While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the…
• Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
• You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried…
• To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She…
• Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.
• It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.
• 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…
• New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but then…
• Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...
• But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way…
• And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as…

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