Meg Wolitzer Quotes

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Books come from within.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

Books, the children of the brain.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Books always help.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.