Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldmanis an Israeli American novelist and essayist. She has written seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and four other novels. She has also written autobiographical essays about motherhood. Waldman spent three years working as a federal public defender and her fiction draws on her experience as a lawyer...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 December 1964
CountryIsrael
writing people tragedy
I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.
writing differences discipline
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.
meaningful memories writing
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
baby children writing
When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.
children writing giving
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'
author choosing loves mommy mystery track
No author loves the idea of not choosing his or her characters' names, ... Mommy Track Mystery.
dozen figure four group hang living rest trying women
It was a group of two dozen women arrayed around this living room. Four were on my side, and the rest were trying to figure out how to hang me.
california diego either freshman san southern
They can be either a freshman at UC San Diego with one too many piercings or a far-too-perfect Southern California mother.
consumes maternal subject written
I've always written about maternal ambivalence. It's the subject that consumes me.
books-and-reading next till wait
If they want to be someone who is not loathsome, they'll have to wait till the next book.
beautiful becoming ends gilded good life madame perfect seems sort
It's a good life in this sort of Madame Bovary way. It's beautiful and perfect and seems to be just what you want but ends up becoming a gilded cage.
feeling openly people writes
Usually I try not to read that stuff. For someone who writes openly about her life, I have the thinnest skin. I don't like feeling that people don't like me. It makes me very upset.
easy fuss kids life strongly
But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It's easy to make a fuss when you're right. That can be the tagline of my life: 'It's Easy To Make A Fuss When You're Right.'
fantasies fighting involved ready unpopular
The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn't do for me when I was a girl. I am so ready to be that little girl's mother.