Meg Wolitzer

"We live in a world where you could go for the rest of your life never reading a book — after school. And that to me is a sad fate ... because books hold so much."

"... I shouldn't write a novel to keep up with every event."

"... when I was a child, I used to tell myself ... serial novels in my head. I had a novel that I told myself, on the way to school, about the two heirs to the Kraft cheese fortune. ... I think it's because ... my mother, busy writing, gave us a lot of Kraft macaroni and cheese."

"... I was interested in the different ways that the world has treated men and women. And I wanted to look at that in the context of a marriage."