Meg Wolitzer Quotes

It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

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

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.

I enjoyed writing 'Tashan' very much.