When you’re writing, it’s so absorbing. It’s like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have a miniature version of the world, your own world, that you actually have some control over. I love to work. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
We all would love the idea of people getting what’s coming to them in books and in life, but sometimes the trajectory is a little more complicated than that. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
I’m really interested in women of different generations… I think there is no one female experience. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
People say, write what you know, but it’s really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you’re thinking about all the time. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
When you have a book out, it’s like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it’s really not normal or good for you or any of that. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
I love guacamole and think about it a lot when I’m supposed to be thinking about language. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
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 Read Quote