Meg Wolitzer Quotes

I wish I still had all of my old schoolwork. I'd just have all the sketches around the schoolwork, and none of the schoolwork done. Just sketches all around. I was always doodling something.

I doodle all the time, even if I'm on the train.

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Sometimes I like to draw.

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

I love to draw people's faces. I do that all the time.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

I used to draw a lot.

I've always been a doodler.

I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

Sometimes, I sketch, but not every day. I sketch random things, whatever I can get my mind into. I'm not a professional, it is just a hobby I've started.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

I was always doodling house sketches.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

My wife will go, 'You know, you're drawing a shoe right now.' I do that all the time.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.