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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. "
Meg Wolitzer
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" It's hard for me to feel bad when I'm writing well. "
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" My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things. "
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Words
Good
" 'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different. "
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Pleasure
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" When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have a miniature version of the world, your own world, that you actually have some control over. I love to work. "
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You
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Love
" It's gratifying to be taken seriously, always. "
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Gratifying
Always
Seriously
" 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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You
People
Time
" Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I really like, and as a writer, it's what I'm drawn to also. "
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Moment
Like
Time
" 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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You
Woman
Powerful
" I am a novelist through and through. "
Meg Wolitzer
Through
Am
I Am
" We all would love the idea of people getting what's coming to them in books and in life, but sometimes the trajectory is a little more complicated than that. "
Meg Wolitzer
Love
Sometimes
More
" I don't write autobiographically. "
Meg Wolitzer
Write
" These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all issues that I've been thinking about and writing about for a very long time. "
Meg Wolitzer
Thinking
Power
Women
" I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally. "
Meg Wolitzer
Growing Up
Love
Mother
" I'm really interested in women of different generations... I think there is no one female experience. "
Meg Wolitzer
Experience
Different
Women
" I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we're talking about the big picture - how they're relevant. "
Meg Wolitzer
Believe
Sometimes
Picture
" Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us. "
Meg Wolitzer
Mother
Important
Us
" I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again. "
Meg Wolitzer
Over
Again
Doodle
" When I was in junior high school, friends and I were in a consciousness-raising group, a term that now seems quaint like a butter churn, but it was very powerful. It was a really wonderful experience. "
Meg Wolitzer
Powerful
Friends
Experience
" Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel. "
Meg Wolitzer
Saying
Uncomfortable
People
" In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away. "
Meg Wolitzer
Some People
People
Time
" I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast. "
Meg Wolitzer
Think
Work
You
" '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. "
Meg Wolitzer
Mother
Strong
Words
" When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this. "
Meg Wolitzer
Book
Time
Freedom
" 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. "
Meg Wolitzer
Ideas
Sometimes
Feel
" Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it. "
Meg Wolitzer
Writing
Happy
Read
" I love guacamole and think about it a lot when I'm supposed to be thinking about language. "
Meg Wolitzer
Language
Think
Love
" We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking about and create characters who feel like they could live - at least for me, that's the way I want to write. "
Meg Wolitzer
Create
Book
Live
" I think my writing changed when I put 'the' in front of my titles. It had more command. "
Meg Wolitzer
Titles
Writing
Think
" I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose. "
Meg Wolitzer
Think
Youth
Powerful
" I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing. "
Meg Wolitzer
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Process
Self-Doubt