Meg Wolitzer Quotes
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I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.
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If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.
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I love guacamole and think about it a lot when I'm supposed to be thinking about language.
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Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.
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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.
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'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.
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It's gratifying to be taken seriously, always.
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I am a novelist through and through.
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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.
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I think my writing changed when I put 'the' in front of my titles. It had more command.
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I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.