Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it’s hard not to be this way at least some of the time. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
When I wrote ‘The Interestings,’ I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When I was in junior high school, friends and I were in a consciousness-raising group, a term that now seems quaint like a butter churn, but it was very powerful. It was a really wonderful experience. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
Charlotte’s Web,’ which I read sitting on my mother’s lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I’m more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they’re ready to go. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn’t know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally. Meg Wolitzer Read Quote
