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Meg Wolitzer is an American writer, known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, and The Interestings. She works as an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

✵ 28. May 1959
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The Interestings
The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer
The Interestings
The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer
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Famous Meg Wolitzer Quotes

“My job does not define me.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

The Interestings

“People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

“The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.”

Meg Wolitzer

Source: The Uncoupling

“And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

“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.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

“She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

Meg Wolitzer Quotes

“But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

“Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You couldto explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

“We're talking about the novel, right? But maybe we're not. We're talking about ourselves. And I guess that's what can start to happen when you talk about a book.”

Meg Wolitzer

Source: Belzhar

“Everyone,” she continues, looking around at all of us, “has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.”

Meg Wolitzer

Source: Belzhar

“… he’s infuriated that his e-reader allows him to only know theof a book he’s read, not the number of pages. This, he thinks, is 92 percent stupid.”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

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