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.
 * (interview February 8, 2016, quote at 3:53 of 4:44)


 * ... I shouldn't write a novel to keep up with every event.
 * (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.
 * (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.
 * (quote at 1:07 of 5:56 in video)