And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it toward you, and as it collects, you really can't believe that there's something else at the end of it. Something that isn't just more pain. But there's always something else at the end; something at least a little different. You never know what that thing will be, but it's there.
Meg WolitzerWasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?
Meg WolitzerPart of the beauty of love was that you didnโt need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didnโt necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.
Meg WolitzerBut this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.
Meg Wolitzer"Unputdownable" is, I suppose, something we all dream of, maybe without knowing it. I realized, some time ago, that a novel can hold a lot, and it made sense that this one was not of the sleek and economical variety, but instead the "full" type. Novel as piรฑata. And the reader does the whacking. I had a central idea, which is to look at what happens to talent over time.
Meg Wolitzer