Meg Wolitzer Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
-
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
-
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
-
Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
-
I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
-
The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
-
I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
-
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
-
Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
-
Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
-
Katie Holmes is really amazing.
-
I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
-
I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
-
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
-
I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
-
If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
-
To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
-
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
-
I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.
-
Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.
-
Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and focus and adherence to the values that we care about will result in a better future for our children and our grandchildren.
-
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.
