Meg Wolitzer Quotes
Top 86 wise famous quotes and sayings by Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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 they did.
But you can't say that what you learn in English class doesn't matter. That great writing doesn't make a difference. I'm
I guess I feel like grief is this huge part of everything," I say in a burst. "But you're supposed to act like it's not.
They should hand out vibrators if they're going to demand so much of you that you can't find time for a private life.
The train came, and Jules Jacobson stepped on and thought: I am the loneliest person in this subway car.
Words matter. All semester, we were looking for the words to say what we needed to say. We were all looking for our voice.
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 want it.
It's basically my fear about what happens when you leave a room. Everyone says the thing about you that you really can't bear.
I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.
It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.
I think having the knowledge, plus the experiences you've lived through, make you definitely not fragile. They make you brave.
No, of course not. I just feel content," she said carefully.
"That's an old person's word," said Ethan.
"That's an old person's word," said Ethan.
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.
He was like a long beaker in chemistry class, and the top was always bubbling over because some interesting process was taking place inside
It's funny how you can go for a long time in life not needing someone, and then you meet them and you suddenly need them all the time
Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?"
"Hmm," said Jules. "Yes. The Holocaust.
"Hmm," said Jules. "Yes. The Holocaust.
Oh boo hoo, everyone's life was hard, and if you'd survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.
Everyone," she continues, looking around at all of us, "has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.
You are the only one I can trust about this, Ash said. Which was maybe just another version of what Cathy Kiplinger had said to Jules: you are weak.
Maybe googling people kills them ... You keep looking them up to see where they are, until one day you look them up and they're dead.
Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can't have it.
Jill told him that he just didn't understand what it meant to have been so promising your whole life and now to be so disappointing in the end.
Power structures were always fairly easy to figure out if you took a moment to observe the people involved.
Maybe the idea of the supposed tension between working and nonworking mothers had been put out in the world just to cause divisiveness.
If you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change.
Closure, that impossible thing that no one had ever experienced in life, because there always seemed to be a little aperture, a slit of light.
And then like two people jumping off a rock into water, I guess we both fell helplessly into sleep. I'm not sure which of us gets there first.
Books light the fire - whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.
...age sixty-eight and still wanting love to exist in a pure column of light, still convinced that it could.
Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?
Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.
In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big" solid ones.
Because the truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should.
If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.
Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.
Even not knowing that yet, she felt an intuitive urgency. What she wanted
and wanted now
was to be loved by someone who excited her.
and wanted now
was to be loved by someone who excited her.
Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about sex in all my books anyway.