Meg Wolitzer Quotes

I play a lot of 'Scrabble' with my brother online.

I love an iPad game of Scrabble.

My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.

I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle.

When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

I'm a Scrabble nut, and I need something to do while I'm travelling. Scrabble keeps me occupied, I play against myself. I have a high score of 718 that I'm always trying to beat. I'm a good player. You don't want to play me for money, that's for sure.

I think that when you talk to people about Monopoly, they love talking about their memories associated with it. And for me, I'm the same way. I mean, when I think about Monopoly, I think of my family playing at the holidays.

I don't travel with them, but they can't be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes... I used to play with my family - dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.

I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing.

I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.'

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

I'm a Words With Friends dork!

Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.

My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.

I'm undefeated in Scrabble. I can figure out an opponent's strategy and mold mine to offset theirs. I play a couple times a week, and I'll often play a game on my bed by myself against myself, which I realize sounds completely mad.

My father has always enjoyed games... always with a combination of the fun and social side of it, but also always highly competitive.

I'm addicted - not video games, but board games.

Christmas time, you're at home with your friends and your parents. You sit down around the table and just play Scrabble. It's a fun game for me.

I played some ping pong with the guys on the T'Wolves team. I might have been the champ on that team, too. But ping pong is a big part of my life. I grew up playing it against my brother and my father when I was young. They used to kick my behind for a long time, so I got very good at it.

I love all board games, actually, apart from backgammon. I can never remember the rules.