American - Writer | May 28, 1959 -
Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
Meg Wolitzer
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I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.
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'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.
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I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally.
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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.
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I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.
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I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.
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I love guacamole and think about it a lot when I'm supposed to be thinking about language.
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I am a novelist through and through.
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It's gratifying to be taken seriously, always.
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We all would love the idea of people getting what's coming to them in books and in life, but sometimes the trajectory is a little more complicated than that.
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I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.
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