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.

Meg Wolitzer

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• 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.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Country
  • Small
  • Author

• 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.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Eye
  • Healthy
  • Beholder

• I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Goal

• 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.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• 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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• 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.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Great
  • Want
  • Just

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.

  

  Rain
  • Food
  • Hamburgers
  • Fries

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Live
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Time
  • Government

• I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.

  

  Kali Uchis

• Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

  

  Douglas Brunt

• Buy your freedom. Work really hard when you're young, save every penny, make a lot of money, and retire at 40, or 30 if you get lucky.

  

  Andrew Skurka
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Retire

• As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• I fell in love with it after going there on holiday when I was 16: we went on one of those red bus tours, and it goes past Juilliard, and I was like, 'I want to go there'.

  

  Gayle Rankin
  • Past
  • Red
  • Holiday

• 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
  • Time
  • Book
  • Freedom