Quotes by Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer

“Unputdownable” is, I suppose, something we all dream of, maybe without knowing it. I realized, some time ago, that a novel can hold a lot, and it made sense that this one was not of the sleek and economical variety, but instead the “full” type. Novel as piñata. And the reader does the whacking. I had a central idea, which is to look at what happens to talent over time.

Dream

Ideas

Knowing

After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

Age

Powerful

Stronger

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 if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn’t stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

Envy

Interesting

Self

And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it toward you, and as it collects, you really can’t believe that there’s something else at the end of it. Something that isn’t just more pain. But there’s always something else at the end; something at least a little different. You never know what that thing will be, but it’s there.

Believe

Pain

Ribbons

And specialness – everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren’t talented. So what are they supposed to do – kill themselves?

Essentials

Jesus

People

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.

Littles

Stars

Teacher

Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.

Baby

Children

Taken

Books light the fire-whether it’s a book that’s already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

Book

Filled In

Fire

Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

Groups

Important

Mother

But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.

People

Stills

Wells

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Adapted

Age

Anxious

Art

Artist

Baby

Being An Artist

Believe

Book

Bread

Busy

Chance

Children

College

Crazy

Creative

Culture

Different

Dream

Dry

Enough

Envy

Essentials

Fall

Feelings

Feels

Fierce

Filled In

Fire

Generations

Giving

Good Writing

Groups

Hands

Ideas

Important

Information

Interesting

Islands

Jackpot

Jesus

Kids

Knowing

Life

Lifetime

Littles

Lonely

Long

Long Ago

Lost

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Quotes by Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer

After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

And specialness – everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren’t talented. So what are they supposed to do – kill themselves?

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.

Books light the fire-whether it’s a book that’s already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.

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