My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And that's saying …

- Hilma Wolitzer

The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

- Hilma Wolitzer

Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.

- Hilma Wolitzer

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the cr…

- Hilma Wolitzer

Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about t…

- Hilma Wolitzer

hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.

- Hilma Wolitzer

The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and t…

- Hilma Wolitzer

There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being discussed, and c…

- Hilma Wolitzer

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

- Hilma Wolitzer