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Meg Wolitzer

I think my writing changed when I put ‘the’ in front of my titles. It had more command.

– Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer

Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.

– Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer

We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking about and create characters who feel like they could live – at least for me, that’s the way I want to write.

– Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer

Pleasure’ is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to ‘entertainment.’ They are very, very different.

– Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it’s weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.

– Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer

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

Meg Wolitzer

I don’t write autobiographically.

– Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

– Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer

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

Meg Wolitzer

It’s hard for me to feel bad when I’m writing well.

– Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer

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

Meg Wolitzer

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

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