Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzeris an American writer, best known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, and The Interestings. She currently works as an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth28 May 1959
CountryUnited States of America
book passion thinking
But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are with one another . . . the way they talk about books and authors and themselves. Not just their problems, but their passions too. The way they form a little society and discuss whatever matters to them. Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.
children parent jackpot
The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.
crazy book ideas
We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and where our obsessions are. If we can spin those obsessions into fiction, then there's a decent chance they will be "fiction-worthy," as you call it. The idea of the "sweep of ideas" is a complicated one.
people signatures chance
You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.
art college thinking
But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.
life dream knowing
I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.
ideas dry might
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.
writing good-writing
Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
war track feelings
While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the other, Mengestu tracks both themes with authority and feeling.
teacher stars littles
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...
image puts written
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.