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High-fiving one another without evident irony.
— Meg Wolitzer
The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.
— Hilma Wolitzer
Everyone basically has one aria to sing over their entire life, and this one is hers.
— Meg Wolitzer
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
— Meg Wolitzer
In a new environment, it was possible to transform.
— Meg Wolitzer
I loved 'Belzhar' by Meg Wolitzer.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
But of course she liked Isadora less now, because she needed her less and saw her more clearly.
— Meg Wolitzer
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.
— 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 life.
— Meg Wolitzer
Plus, constantly worrying about money is *boring*. Use your brain ... to be creative.
— Meg Wolitzer
The train came, and Jules Jacobson stepped on and thought: I am the loneliest person in this subway car.
— Meg Wolitzer
Words matter. All semester, we were looking for the words to say what we needed to say. We were all looking for our voice.
— Meg Wolitzer
No one ever told you that in moment of crisis, family was allowed to trump friendship.
— Meg Wolitzer
But the loss of possibilities was always undeniably painful.
— Meg Wolitzer
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.
— Meg Wolitzer
I've always had a fear of being small and ordinary. How can I just have this one life?
— 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
It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.
— Meg Wolitzer
I have never been much of a researcher
— Meg Wolitzer
I think having the knowledge, plus the experiences you've lived through, make you definitely not fragile. They make you brave.
— Meg Wolitzer
No, of course not. I just feel content," she said carefully."That's an old person's word," said Ethan. — Meg Wolitzer
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.
— Meg Wolitzer
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
— Meg Wolitzer
Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?""Hmm," said Jules. "Yes. The Holocaust. — 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
I want an uncircumscribed world.
— Meg Wolitzer
Oh boo hoo, everyone's life was hard, and if you'd survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.
— Meg Wolitzer
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.
— Meg Wolitzer
First novels were always at least somewhat autobiographical,
— Meg Wolitzer
Maybe the idea of the supposed tension between working and nonworking mothers had been put out in the world just to cause divisiveness.
— Meg Wolitzer
Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.
— Meg Wolitzer
Irony was new to her and tasted oddly good, like a previously unavailable summer fruit.
— Meg Wolitzer
The food was bad but the conversation was vigorous as they sat and talked about many of the campers
— Meg Wolitzer
The past is so tenacious.
— Meg Wolitzer
Power structures were always fairly easy to figure out if you took a moment to observe the people involved.
— Meg Wolitzer
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star ...
— Meg Wolitzer
But of course people were different, she remembered; they were allowed to be different.
— Meg Wolitzer
Because friend was encompassing, and here it encompassed so much, including the contradictions.
— Meg Wolitzer
Because the truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should.
— Meg Wolitzer
Because when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.
— Meg Wolitzer
My job does not define me.
— Meg Wolitzer
Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.
— Meg Wolitzer
Books light the fire - whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.
— Meg Wolitzer
...age sixty-eight and still wanting love to exist in a pure column of light, still convinced that it could.
— 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
Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.
— Meg Wolitzer
In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
— Meg Wolitzer
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.
— Meg Wolitzer
Hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.
— Hilma Wolitzer
...the Iraq war was the Ishtar of wars.
— Meg Wolitzer
There was no life Dennis burned to live except, it seemed, a life that wasn't depressed.
— Meg Wolitzer
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.
— Meg Wolitzer
The rest of life - that imperfect thing - waiting.
— Meg Wolitzer
Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.
— Hilma Wolitzer
The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.
— Meg Wolitzer
Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.
— Meg Wolitzer
Sometimes you think people will be around forever, and then you lose them with no warning at all.
— Meg Wolitzer
Even not knowing that yet, she felt an intuitive urgency. What she wantedand wanted now
was to be loved by someone who excited her. — Meg Wolitzer
Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
— Meg Wolitzer
Maybe that was what it was like to be a writer: Even with the eyes closed, you could see.
— Meg Wolitzer
Twitter. You know what it is? Termites with microphones.
— Meg Wolitzer
