Meg Wolitzer Quotes

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?

I am a private person and that has always been my personality.

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

I'm not ambitious, I never have been; it's just not in my DNA.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. One's passions may just be a guidebook to one's life.

One thing I realised was that everyone is different. You can't compare two human beings.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that person.

Every human being is different.

My parents named me after Uriah the Hittite, one of King David's mighty men in the Old Testament of the Bible, who was known for his fearlessness. I've thought about it, and there may be a connection between my name and my personality.

I don't want the 'supersub' label or anything like that. I just want to come on and express myself and play the best I can.

I think that people need a box to put people in to feel okay, but I'm just not like that.

Every manager has his own ideas and different ways of doing things.

You start comparing yourself to other people, you end up trying to be that person. You've got to be your own person, do it your own way. You can be motivated by somebody, but you don't have to take after them.

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.

I know, for a fact, that I'm a very different person on my own than I am with someone else. We are different with each other. These things are constantly adjusted. And that's true of humans. That's not just true of famous people.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.