Meg Wolitzer Quotes

When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have a miniature version of the world, your own world, that you actually have some control over. I love to work.

Meg Wolitzer

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• Work
• Writing
• Control

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• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Star
  • Big

• My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Age
  • Father
  • Religion

• Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Perspective
  • Own
  • Content

• E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Frustration

• There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Feel
  • Moment
  • Reasons

• The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Death
  • End
  • Stronger

• I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Live
  • Think
  • House

• The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • May
  • Dangerous
  • November

• I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Music
  • New
  • Update

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Guy

• I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • American
  • Think
  • Fear

• I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Acting
  • Doing
  • Worst

• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Good
  • Men
  • Genius

• I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Kids
  • Society
  • Learn

• People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Money
  • Bad

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • True
  • Suffering

• I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy - and I realized that one more change, and I'm going to start looking like a dilettante.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • People

• If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

  

  Edwin Starr
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Leadership

• The funny thing is that Sydney, who worked on the first film [Tron], developed a bike that had an exposed rider, but they couldn't do it because the computers weren't fast enough, so they gave it a roof, which became the iconic one. Ironically what we do now is basically what they envisioned in the first one but couldn't do technically. I mean this a full on homage in every aspect.

  

  Daniel Simon
  • Mean
  • Enough
  • Computer

• When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have a miniature version of the world, your own world, that you actually have some control over. I love to work.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • World
  • Work
  • Writing