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Meg Wolitzer Quotes

When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have a miniature version of the world, your own world, that you actually have some control over. I love to work.

Meg Wolitzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 28, 1959

Topics

Work Love Writing Control World You

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

Jennifer Egan

Memories Time Myself Past Thinking

We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.

Matt Groening

People Start Doing Go Movies Why

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

Amanda Peet

People Close Commit Who Interested

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

Spike Jonze

Think Process Want Movies Understand

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

Mitch Daniels

Fear Ignorance Money Believe Black

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Joyce Meyer

Character Behavior Through Patterns

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

Jason Epstein

Will Become Digital Disappear

Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.

Devin Nunes

Hope Government Enough Bad Poor Get

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Deepak Chopra

Death Spiritual Tradition Unique

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

Brigitte Boisselier

Technology Time You New Get Effect

I'm an honest person and don't lead my life on other people's terms.

Anushka Sharma

Life People My Life Person Lead

What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.

Marion Cotillard

Doing Sharing Movies