Meg Wolitzer Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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There will be commotions and turbulent times, Seek no peace - it will not accrue to thee. The Ruler of Heaven knows thy prayer. From his ardent wrath thy praise has propitiated him The Sovereign King of Glory addresses me with wisdom Hast thou seen the dominus fortis? Knowest thou the profound prediction domini?
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I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times in a way that's completely consistent with the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in.
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
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I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.
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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.
