Part 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 clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.
Meg WolitzerObjectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is the novel I want to write. And when you're done you need to think: This is what the novel I wanted to write feels like and reads like and looks like. Other people might call it sweeping or small, but it's the book you chose.
Meg Wolitzer