Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American novelist and New York Times bestselling author.

Quotes

• We live in a world where you could go for the rest of your life never reading a book — after school. And that to me is a sad fate ... because books hold so much.
  • (March 2, 2016)"Meg Wolitzer - Backstage at Pen and Podium". Backstage at Pen & Podium, YouTube. (interview February 8, 2016, quote at 3:53 of 4:44)

• ... I shouldn't write a novel to keep up with every event.
  • (April 27, 2018)"Meg Wolitzer, 'The Female Persuasion' (w/ Ron Charles)". Politcs and Prose, YouTube. (quote at 3:18 of 48:58 in video)

• ... when I was a child, I used to tell myself ... serial novels in my head. I had a novel that I told myself, on the way to school, about the two heirs to the Kraft cheese fortune. ... I think it's because ... my mother, busy writing, gave us a lot of Kraft macaroni and cheese.
  • (July 31, 2018)"TimesTalks: Glenn Close and Meg Wolitzer". New York Times Events, YouTube. (quote at 46:18 of 1:10:05 in video)

• ... I was interested in the different ways that the world has treated men and women. And I wanted to look at that in the context of a marriage.
  • (February 26, 2019)"'The Wife' author Meg Wolitzer answers your questions". PBS NewsHour, YouTube. (quote at 1:07 of 5:56 in video)