“As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more int...” — Meg Wolitzer Quote

“As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.”

“For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.”

“I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.”