We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big" solid ones.
Meg WolitzerEven if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.
Meg WolitzerIn The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
Meg WolitzerFor me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.
Meg Wolitzer